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• Satellite A305-S6825 - HARD drive light flashing sometimes

  I have the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825, I bought in April. 250 GB and 3 GB of Ram.

  I notiice sometimes, when I'm not working on what the hard drive light flashes for a while. Is this normal?

  I have not checked all programs (I think) to a setting with automatic and/or scanning, etc.

  Are there any programs that are running in Vista Premium without me using the working on the laptop?

  I hope that the laptop is not broken.

  Alice
  U.S..

  The laptop is certainly not broken. The same thing happens with my two laptops from Toshiba.
  In the background, several processes are active and it is possible that antivirus checks or scans the HARD drive.
  Maybe some updates are installed at the moment. It can be anything.

  In any case, don't worry about it. Everything is OK.

• Is it safe to remove a USB hard drive or flash drive when my PC is suspended?

  Suppose that I used my USB hard drive or flash drive.  Now suppose the PC goes to sleep or I deliberately suspended (after which the green light on my hard drive turns off).  Is it now OK to disconnect the device from the USB connection?  Or I have to wake up the PC and go through the procedure of "eject" explicit to remove safely?  You can assume that no files don't care don't is open for output on the disk when the suspension occurs.  (I can't represent some of the things that the OS can be done on a regular basis.)  I could in theory (and unintentionally) open a file media for playback and made a break at a time where the OS hangs.

  (I always assumed that, when you go to sleep, the BONE empty buffers and otherwise puts files in safe States, as it would have on explicit 'eject'.)  However, my research on this issue have never turned up an explicit answer, so I've always played it safe.  However, the scenario I describe is common for me, and it would be more convenient if the suspension is that it is safe.  It's a HTPC across the room, so suspend and then unplug is much easier that awaken (possibly), eject, get up, disconnect, go back, suspend and finally go away.  I wonder whenever I'm doing it the "hard".  "I want to know.)

  I doubt that the answer depends on the OS; but, if so, please say how it may be different, that I also have a desktop XP machine.

  No, put the computer to sleep does not these "flush" or "eject" actions. Files that are open and active are both suspended - that is, to remove all media while the computer sleeps is a risky operation.  You can, for example, to sleep or hibernate a computer in the middle of a software installation, it is clear at this point are activities that could cause more read/write operations once the computer wakes.

• No HARD drive light on Qosmio X 870

  Hi all

  I m coming on this forum to post something that has my curiosity because I bought my Qosmio X 870, 3 years ago...
  This series has no HARD drive light and I wonder why...
  I mean, it looks like "slikier" without light... But this HDD light is very useful in my opinion, it gives me a reading how my HARD drive works when my computer oar, allowing me to solve some problems and simply check the health of my laptop computer in general. I have to put my ear on the side of the HARD drive and listen to it if it is working or not, boring.

  Why is it like that? Is this just for the style?
  Thank you.

  We can discuss here everything, but no one here can tell you why this model Qosmio no HDD LED. Always new and new design I think. My S50 - B Satellite has not too much.

  To be honest, it is very useful to have, but I don't miss it at all.

• How to use Ready Boost, and what are the requirements for the use of portable hard drives and flash drives for use with Ready Boost?

  I have Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Edition and try to get Ready Boost to work on my PC using portable hard drives or flash drives. I have 2 portable hard drives (iomega 120gig, Seagate 250gig) and a 8gig sandisk cruzer flash drive. All this deterioration when you try to use the ready boost said that these discs only are not compatible or not supported. So what do I need?

  Not all readers will work with ReadyBoost. There are some readers who actually will specify that they are capable of ReadyBoost.

  By WikiPedia:

  • The device should have an access time of 1ms or less.
  • The device must be capable of 2.5 MB/s for 4 KB random read speeds indicates the spread uniformly across the entire device and 1.75 MB/s write for 512 speed random writes spread uniformly across the device.

  You must also put the device and let it plugged in for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is therefore best suited for a small thumbdrive (up to 4 GB) that greater thumbdrive or external HD that you would probably be disconnect from time to time.

  Open solutions Explorer window, find your Cruzer - right-click on it and click Properties. If there is a ReadyBoost tab, you can set up - set it to dedicate this device to ReadyBoost. It will be implemented and save a file on the USB key. Click Apply and're you good to go.

  A caveat which I can testify first-hand. Apparently while booting, Win 7 has trouble with some USB key - it will search the thumbdrive, the operating system, the process of starting to stall and you say: ' Missing Operating System ' - Fortunately the solution is very easy. Shut down the computer, remove the USB key, restart the computer and it will start normally. I had this happen with a 8 GB Cruzer. This seems to be a random thing, because I had the Cruzer plugged in and booted several times without encountering the error of missing operating system message. No idea why or why it is injury. Currently, I use a Kodak USB 2 gig key that seems to work very well.

• All my adobe files are corrupt. I saved them on my computer, my external hard drive and flash players. All report them at the same time as all my PSD files and I are corrupt.

  All my adobe files are corrupt. I saved them on my computer, my external hard drive and flash players. All report them at the same time as all my PSD files and I are corrupt.

  My computer recently had an error with the System 32 and will not open if I reformat, which means I lose everything on it. No problem, because I supported straight? It turns out that all my backups say they are corrupt. Do I just terrible luck, or is there a reason why none of my files works when I try to open them on another computer?

  Try the bugcheck on the ext hdd. Right click on the drive in 'my computer' > 'properties' > 'Tools' > click 'check now '.

  You can restart your pc and reconnect the ext hdd.

  Recuva Piriform is a free data recovery program.

  Google for more solutions

• The hard drive light

  Hi all.

  I just bought the Acer 7600U-UR24 all-in-one. I've updated Windows 8, updated to 8.1 and updated again. All Windows updates are made. I only installed a few programs now, including Office 2003 and iTunes.

  The problem I have, is what I suppose is the HARD drive, a red light about 3 inches to the right of the camera, blinks constantly, even after shutting down the computer, do not put it to sleep. The flickering is constant, regular and fast not irregular when you work and then do nothing. I tried to restart without result. Today, off, I went and took a shower and returned about 35 minutes later and it was still flashing. I tried to unplug the power supply from the wall and the computer for a few minutes, but he begins to blink once I have it plug it all back in.

  There is also a series of 8 white flashing dashes "pointing" to the power button. Not really a button but a stain on the upper right corner of the screen that you tap to activate it. They are blinking successively from left to right, and then finally by the flashing symbol of power. This continues when the computer is turned off and stops when it starts. Is this normal? It flashes all night.

  I tried the chat with a tech from Acer. She said it could be a static buildup in the motherboard. Asked me to unplug everything, hold the power button for 15 seconds, which you can't do because there is no power button, and then put it all together and turn it on.

  Am I missing something? I'm not new to computers.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Stuart

  I studied the blinking light that you are curious about. This light is a proximity sensor which will help you easily find the power button. If you place your hand in front of the flashing light, it should be flashing lights to indicate where is the power button.

• Hard drive LED flashes after Service Pack 2 installed.

  Hard disk LED (activity indicator) flashes or 'pulses' once per second, like seconds ticking of a clock after installing SP2.

  This happens on my Vista 64 Ultimate desktop and my laptop Vista 64 Home Premium of buddies.

  When we turn off the DVD/CD drive in Device Manager, the drive stops flashing...? Anyone?

  * After using System Restore to 'Cancel' the installation of SP2 on the laptop, the hard drive continues to blink.

  Disabling the 'Auto-Play' function does not work either.

  I do a system restore on the laptop. This operation he brings to "out of box state" and running on SP1. I follow the results upward.

  Problem solved!

  With the office running, I disconnected the power cable from the DVD itself, DVD player and cut the data cable from the motherboard DVD player, then reconnected them.

  It's now time to try this on the laptop.

  Keep in mind the two of them are running Vista 64 bit and this devloped problem only after installation of SP2.

• Each folder in my external hard drive and Flash Drives have all been replaced by cmd shortcuts by accident

  I don't know how it happened but one night, I unplugged my external hard drive, and I remember vaguely the prompt being opened by accident after I plugged the external drive again the next day. The computer says my drive needed for formatting, that does not make sense because my drive was not related at the time. Well, when I reconnected my drive and restarted the computer, each folder in my external hard drive, I created in recent months, had been changed to shortcuts by the computer. The target location for each folder on my external hard drive and readers flash is (C:\Windows\System32). So whenever I click on a folder for documents, it will open in another screen, but I can't ever see as a folder only content inside, I need to find a way to cancel some setting in my computer that changes every folder I creat in a shortcut that reads-card: cmd (C:\Windows\System32)

  Hi Gordon Gekko.

  It seems that the data on the hard drive is damaged. I suggest you plug the drive on another computer or another port on the same computer to see if the data is accessible.

  If you take a backup of the data in the drive and try to format the drive.

  For more information, see the following link:

  Formatting disks and drives: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/formatting-disks-and-drives-frequently-asked-questions

  You can also use your favorite search engine to download third party software to recover the data and then format the drive, so it's is more corrupt.

  Note: The use of third-party software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third-party software can be solved. Software using third party is at your own risk.

  Hope this information is useful.

• IdeaPad U410 without hard drive, lights after updates.

  Hello

  I imported just an Ideapad u410 of the United States to the United Kingdom. It turns on well, I started noticing the proglem wifi everyone have. Not much, got a USB wifi adapter carrying around I can use. Then I noticed that the hard drive (C, no other visible hard drive) was rediculously small (20-30 a few GB, I forgot the exact figure) with almost all of it is the used space. I thought it was a partition for the operating system and for some reason, the rest of the disc wasn't show. I noticed icon indicating the button windows update turn off and thought that maybe the installer was not complete, so I pressed restart. It kept restarting, download updates and reboot, I'm gone for dinner when she proclaimed it would now install update 1 of 96. When I came back the laptop was turned off. I turned it on to be satisfied by a never-ending cycle of BSOD when starting, followed by a Startup Repair failed... I guess that it is are not enough space on drive C for the update of windows. What should I do now?

  
  

• Satellite A500 - 14 k - HARD Drive LED indicator always flashes

  Hello

  First sorry for my bad English

  I'm french and I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite A500 - 14 k (http://fr.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Satellite-A500-14K/1072806)

  I have a little problem with this laptop and I don't know if anyone has a solution

  The HARD drive light flashes constantly (1 blinking per second) even in safe mode. I checked some forums and I learned he had something to do with the function of autorun cd /dvd CD/DVD recorder.

  If the autorun feature is disabled in the windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces\CDRom and the key value goes from 1 to 0) the flashing disappears, but I can't access my data from CD or DVD (media are marked as empty). However, the audio CD and video DVD work except that they cannot be started automatically.

  The same thing happens if the CD/DVD writer is disabled in the control panel Device Manager: the led indicator has a normal activity.

  I would like if this problem occurs with other owners of this product and if there is a solution to use normally without this flash recorder

  Thank you

  I don't have A500 but A300 and I can't say with certainty why this and what kind of HARD drive activity is ongoing, but what you can try is to remove some pre-installed Toshiba stuff like TEMPRO or pre-installed application antivir.

  When the laptop is new days that many updates will be installed and in the background is always a certain activity. Automatic update is disabled?
  Try also to remove TEMPRO. This tool is active permanent and search for updates.
  Try to optimize the operating system preinstalled and carefully monitor if something will change. I always do after clean operating system installation.

• Qosmio G50 - HARD drive blinks every second

  Well, if she's here,

  I have a Qosmio G50. I installed WindowXP Pro 64-bit.

  I noticed the hard drive light flashes every second. I spent some time searching the net for a soultion. This led me to download a utility called "process explorer" from microsoft.

  This utility show me that the active process is services.exe. The properties of this service suggest that it handles "eventlog" and 'plugplay '.

  I realize that I can't go to the event log, nor what I want.

  Can anyone help?

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  The HDD led always flashes if it read all the data or written to the HARD disk.
  The service.exe (Service Control Manager) belongs to the Windows operating system and it s of Microsoft which is necessary and my knowledge background process, it cannot be disabled.

  Good bye

• Satellite L350-170 - sounds of clanking from the HARD drive

  My laptop Satellite L350-170 performs a kind of rattling noise when the hard drive light flashes.
  Is this normal because this is a replacement one but that I had did not all sounds.

  Hello

  It is very difficult to say why this noise appears.
  I have two laptops. On a laptop, the HARD drive clicks and creates its strange but 4 years it worked correctly.
  The other HDD doesn t create sounds

  So, as you can see not really easy to tell what could cause this noise of rattle, but I recommend creating a file backup.
  In the worst cases could die your HARD drive and as a result, a backup is always recommended.

  You said that the HARD drive has been changed so maybe you should ask ASP for more details and maybe this HARD drive will be replaced again.

• Sometimes the mouse freezes while the HARD drive is in use

  Sometimes, the mouse freezes.
  When it freezes hard drive light flashes, usually hangs in the games, the games freezes often and then he works

  Hello

  I put t really understand what we should meet here.
  Please be so kind and post some info on your machine, pre-installed OS and detailed description a bit more on your problem.

• HP 15 ab 522: loud noise of HARD drive

  My laptop (HP 15 ab 522) HARD drive makes squealing noise whenever the HARD drive light flashes white. The noise becomes quite noticeable and persistent when the system boots, the HARD drive light turns to solid white color. HARD drive runs smoothly when there is no indication of the LED on the HARD drive. I understand that whenever the HARD drive is accessible, he makes noise due to the movement of the read/write head but the noise is louder at compared other hard drives in other laptops. Its a Hitachi (HGST HTS541010A9E680) HARD drive as far as I can make out. I ran also ran a large HDD, all successful tests test.

  Help, please. Thank you.

  Hi @Aayush_K,