Digital BW, The Print

Windows Vista SP1; Dell Inspiron, 3gb ram.

Thanks David. 

Richard

At 02:41 a.m. Saturday 27/06/2009, you wrote:



>On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Richard Smallfield wrote:
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>> I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem.
>>
>> Contrary to logic, my computer slows down when I have an external 
>> 750GB archived images hard drive switched on. (The disc also has a 
>> scratch partition for Photoshop. I use a laptop - but otherwise, 
>> funds permitting, would have a RAID scratch array.)
>>
>> The thing is, when I switch on this external drive, the internal 
>> hard drive spins like mad for ages - half an hour? Ages, anyway. And 
>> the computer becomes impossibly slow.
>>
>> I thought it was McAfee doing a scan this morning (which it was 
>> doing), so I turned off the scan, but still the hard drive was going 
>> nuts for half an hour or so.
>>
>> So, power management issues aside, I leave my four external hard 
>> drives turned off unless I need them for something.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a reason why this might be happening?
>
>You did not mention your OS and other relevant factors, but given the 
>comment about McAfee, we can assume Windows.
>
>C. David Tobie
>Global Product Technology Manager
>Digital Imaging & Home Theater
><mailto:CDTobie%40datacolor.com>CDTobie@...
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