How do I enable write caching?

[Roman79]

I was playing around with Bootvis (MS program that lets you speed up your boot times) and got an error that "write caching is disabled"

I'm running XP Pro SP1 so I went to the properties of the drive in device manager, then to the policies tab. The only problem is that the check mark to enable write caching is missing. If you scroll down a third of the way down this thread it show a pic, only theirs has the check. Mine is set to "Optimize for performance" as well.

Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks!

PS - drive is a Maxtor 60GB (6L060J3)

 

[-=TriX-R4-KidS=]

you need an IDE drive (which you have)
and if you have a RAID setup...you cannot enable write caching

and do you have an nforce motherboard? the nforce IDE drivers label all my IDE devices as SCSI in the device manager for some reason.

-TriX

 

[Roman79]

Nope no RAID, just a single drive. The mobo is an IT7 (P4) and the drive shows up as a normal IDE drive in DM.... so I'm at a loss...

 

[Roman79]

No one knows??

 

[WyrmMaster]

Its in the device manager, under your drive, on the disk properties tab.

 

[Roman79]

Yes I know where it normally is, but what I'm saying is that the check box to enable it is missing

 

[Roman79]

OK so I guess I'm going to answer my own question, in case anyone else runs into this.

It seems that when you install "Intel Application Accelerator" it removes the checkbox. I uninstalled it and the check box was back, however things seem slower now so I'm going to re-install.

 

[Tecumseh]

I've run lots of benchmarks looking at this write cache issue.
In most cases it doesn't amount to spit. Don't worry about it.