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Hard Drive Write Cache

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    Received warning message from BootVis that hard drive write cache was disabled. Went through BIOS settings, can't find how to enable. Anybody, help?
     
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    Open Explorer, right click the drive, select Properties.
    Go to the Hardware tab, highlight drive, select Properties.
    Policies tab, enable write caching.
    This is in XP. If you don't have XP, it's in the same general area, might be device manager, hard drives, properties...
     
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    Thanks Reboot: I'll go there now
     
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    Reboot: I went there and found the window grayed out with the hard drive cache radio button selected. So, I don't know if BootVis is right, any way to find if write cache is enabled through system that you know of?? Does the unselectable window tell me anything??
     
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    P.S. XP Home
     
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    If it's greyed out, there are a couple of things.
    Bootvis could be wrong.
    Is DMA enabled in BIOS and Windows for the drive?
     
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