Low Hard Drive Scores on Windows Experience Index

[I2aMpAnT]

Anybody who has drastically lower scores for their Windows 7 WEI than they did for Vista's WEI, please post your Specs Here. Specifically your HDD's specs and your mainboard.


EDIT- Why is this post marked as solved when it is most certainly solved?


This seems to work on most cases, however it is a risk.

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

 

[igloo]

HDD score 2.9
MB: MSI P35 neo2
HD: Maxtor IDE 100GB

 

[Joe]

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

 

[I2aMpAnT]

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

Rescanning now...

 

[grimreaper]

This setting improves performance, but a power outage or hardware failure may result in data loss, so I would strongly recommend a UPS (power backup supply).

HD score 3.0
Seagates 3X500GB RAID 0
Mobo evga 780i

 

[I2aMpAnT]

This setting improves performance, but a power outage or hardware failure may result in data loss, so I would strongly recommend a UPS (power backup supply).

HD score 3.0
Seagates 3X500GB RAID 0
Mobo evga 780i

I too have an EVGA board and Seagate drives....coincidence?

 

[I2aMpAnT]

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

This did not work, still a 3.0

 

[igloo]

Thanks Joe. That did increase my WEI score from 2.9 to 5.4.
I guess I need to re-enable the write catch after the test, right?

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

 

[rob3]

Same here no go hmm...

 

[linuzo]

I also had a low score (2.9) on my SATA2 Seagate Barracuda's 7200 rpm. I thought it was a bit low so I tried what you said and disabled the writing cache. re-running now.

 

[rob3]

the ting is i have no tab there

 

[I2aMpAnT]

the ting is i have no tab there

LOL
That may be your first problem

 

[rob3]

so would you say that my chipset drivers are the problem?

 

[Joe]

Thanks Joe. That did increase my WEI score from 2.9 to 5.4.
I guess I need to re-enable the write catch after the test, right?

Changing this setting will increase the HDD WEI scores in many systems, not all. If you want to restore the setting to default, it won't hurt anything.

 

[I2aMpAnT]

so would you say that my chipset drivers are the problem?

Not sure to be honest, possibly the drivers for your motherboard are not fully compatible with Windows 7.

 

[igloo]

You should use device manager instead of "devices and printers".

the ting is i have no tab there

 

[I2aMpAnT]

Thanks Joe. That did increase my WEI score from 2.9 to 5.4.
I guess I need to re-enable the write catch after the test, right?

Did you reboot after disabling write caching before running the WEI test again?

 

[I2aMpAnT]

the ting is i have no tab there

This is what you should see...

 

[rob3]

yes thats what i got when i went to divice manager and it did improve my
ratings.thanks for the advice..should i turn it back on after test

 

[I2aMpAnT]

To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

Tried this again and I got a 5.9, THANKS!