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Old May 10th 06, 07:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
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Default Slow file copying between two hard drives

What sort of drives and how are the drives connected? If you are using
IDE drives avoid having them in a Master/Slave relationship. Have each
drive as master on its own controller.

John

myPC wrote:
Hello:

I'm trying to copy about 20GB of files from one physical hard drive to
another. Many of the files are music files. Both hard drives have DMA
enabled. Virtual memory is set for Windows to manage it. The computer has
1GB of physical memory installed. MaxFileCache is set to 512000.

When I try to copy all of these files from one hard drive to another, it
copies about 10 files and then there is about a 10 second pause. Then it
copies another 10 files and then there is another 10 second pause....this
just keeps going and going....

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA