Hard drive thrashing upon shutdown

[IUcat]

Hello,

I've searched for a solution to my problem but have not found any. I'm having thrashing upon shutdown of my windows 7 box and can't figure out why. I have tried the obvious such as updating the bios, updating the sata bios, updating all drivers, disabling the floppy and testing the hard drive, memory, and proc.

Here are some specs:

-Fresh install, updated to current updates
-Abit IN9-max32x motherboard (latest bios)
-Pentium 4 HT 2.8 processor
-wd1500ahfd 150gb sata hard drive (windows tells me this is the most up to date driver)
-Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS (tried different versions of the nvidia driver)
-Dual booting XP ( everthing there is fine)

Now I have noticed no clicking or problems in XP and compared the drivers there w/ the ones listed under the hard drive in 7. Both os's contain Disk.sys and PartMgr.sys. Only 7 has SiRemFil.sys listed. The Disk.sys and PartMgr.sys on 7 list the date 6/21/06 and version 6.1.7600.16385. The Disk.sys and PartMgr.sys on XP list the date 7/1/06 and version 5.1.2535

I'm at wit's end here and dont know what else to try... Any help would be appreciated.

 

[richc46]

See if problem continues with a clean boot
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

 

[IUcat]

Just tried with a clean boot, same results... :-/

 

[richc46]

Just trying to localize the problem, try in safe mode.

 

[IUcat]

Same result.

I was thinking it could be some setting in bios. I saw someone have a similar "hang" problem that wasn't described as clicking/thrashing and they mentioned disabling a floppy. I did that, but I didn't see any other settings in bios that looked like a possible suspect.

 

[richc46]

When you say tested the hard drive, was it something like this:


Test Hard Drive HD Diagnostic or this test http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

or just a diskcheck

How about a defrag?

 

[IUcat]

I tested the drive with Fedora's drive test utility. That should be sufficient since it's using S.M.A.R.T data. It's also a brand new drive (new old stock). Doesn't click on XP, Fedora or Ubuntu...

 

[IUcat]

Do you think Defrag would be needed on a fresh drive?

Also, I just remember a factor that may play into all this. I used EasyBCD to edit/create the boot partition for Windows 7 after I resized the partion and installed XP on the free space.

 

[IUcat]

Did a defrag, same results...

 

[richc46]

Im a bit at a loss. You said that you updated bios, not sure what the cause is.
Here is an article about what causes thrashing. Maybe indexing or other process is running at shutdown, dont know.
Beginners Guides: Stopping Vista From Thrashing Hard Disks to Death - PCSTATS.com

 

[IUcat]

Sorry, I meant that I didn't understand the cause and was just trying to throw out some more ideas. I did update the bios successfully as well as the Sata Controller on the board.

At this point I'm going to try to simplify the problem by doing a fresh install of Win 7 and letting that take up the whole drive. I'm wondering if that EasyBCD program was causing some problems w/ the dual boot setup.

I'll report back

 

[richc46]

It was nothing that you said, I just cant pinpoint the problem