Can anyone tell me....

[MDHerman]

Hi. I've owned about 6 WD HDs. If your's is ticking or making some unusual noise, that could be a signal that your drive is not long for this world. The Message Board / Tech Support at www.WDC.com is pretty good. Post your problem (seems WD drives are famous for their noise making!) and a tech will respond within 24-48 hours. Good luck.

mdh

[ck42866]

I did both. Went to the WD site and modified my virtual memory. Hope it works, thanks!

[ck42866]

why my hard drive, a Western Digital 6.8G hard drive makes a tick-tick-tick-tick sound as if it was busy after a few minutes at idle. I do not have any programs like "find-fast" in the backround. I turned everything off that could possibly make the drive busy. My thinking is that it is doing a test on it's own or something but did not read that in it's literature. Any advice?

[drizzle]

It's very possible that it is Windows 9x managing your swap file. When the OS sits idle it will usually start to trim down the size of the swap file to what it is set for. If this is the case you can manage your swap file size. By placing a minimum & maximum value of the same size, Windows will not need to adjust the size of the file.

Do to this...right-click on 'My Computer', 'Properties', 'Performance', 'Virtual Memory'

Select 'Let me specify my settings' and then choose a size for the file. Usually it's recommended to set the size for 2-3 times the amount of physical RAM you have. For example if you have 32MB RAM you should set the size for either 64MB or 96MB.

Hope this helps....

Jason
techdrivers.com