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Macbook Unibody has slow HDD in Windows Index Value

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Cali3350

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Feb 16, 2009
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Hey guys, after a lot of thinking I ended up getting a new Aluminum Macbook! First Mac ever, so yay me!

Anyway, when I booted into windows the first time I put in the Leopard install disk and everything went fine. When i booted back into windows i noticed "SMBus controller" and "Coproccesser" were not installed correctly. I looked at the Boot Disk DVD, ran "NvidiaChipset.exe", and after a reboot everything was great!

Then I ran window Experience index and my HDD is getting a pathetic score of 2.0. Just wondering if anyone else has this issue and how/if they got it working again.

Thanks Guys!
 
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MaskingTape

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Jan 9, 2009
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The hard drive in the macbook is a laptop hard drive that is only 5400 rpm. So it's going to get a low score. Only way to get a higher score is buying a 7200 rpm drive or a solid state drive.
 
jav6454

jav6454

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Cali3350 said:
Hey guys, after a lot of thinking I ended up getting a new Aluminum Macbook! First Mac ever, so yay me!

Anyway, when I booted into windows the first time I put in the Leopard install disk and everything went fine. When i booted back into windows i noticed "SMBus controller" and "Coproccesser" were not installed correctly. I looked at the Boot Disk DVD, ran "NvidiaChipset.exe", and after a reboot everything was great!

Then I ran window Experience index and my HDD is getting a pathetic score of 2.0. Just wondering if anyone else has this issue and how/if they got it working again.

Thanks Guys!
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Yes, its a common problem in MBs. There is a thread about it in Windows on a Mac Forum.

Apparently its a screw up of Windows, and the MBs HDD is more than enough. People have found the solution to this is troubleshoot through the whole thing.
 
fibrizo

fibrizo

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Jan 23, 2009
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I forget the fix for it... but I just ended up getting a 320gb 7200 rpm drive for 80 bux and that fixed it for me... my score is now 5.9
 
staccato83

staccato83

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Sep 9, 2008
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You have to delete all the files here:

C:\windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

Then run the test again and your HDD index score should go up. Hope this helps.
 
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