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Old May 11th 06, 04:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
myPC
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Default Slow file copying between two hard drives

Thanks for that info. it saved me from reinstalling Windows 98 ... which I
had planned on doing today. I do indeed have one Maxtor and one Western
Digital hard drive....off to the computer store to buy another hard drive I
go.

Many Thanks
Chris.


"Jonny" wrote in message
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There is a hardware level ide communication problem with some Maxtors used
in same PC with some Western Digitals. Has nothing to do with the OS
used.
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Jonny
"myPC" wrote in message
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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





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Old August 11th 06, 12:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
J. P. Gilliver
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Default Slow file copying between two hard drives

"myPC" wrote in message
...
Thanks for that info. it saved me from reinstalling Windows 98 ... which I
had planned on doing today. I do indeed have one Maxtor and one Western
Digital hard drive....off to the computer store to buy another hard drive
I

[]
"Jonny" wrote in message
...
There is a hardware level ide communication problem with some Maxtors
used in same PC with some Western Digitals. Has nothing to do with the
OS

[]
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

[]
Before you do, I just want to check: when you say it copies about 10 files
and then pauses, how do you know it has actually copied them?

The reason I ask is that I've noticed this with pen (USB) drives: the moving
(I'm usually moving rather than copying) _appears_ to go at lightning speed,
but if you then tell it you want to unplug the drive, it says don't (and if
you actually do, it messes up the data, at least on the pen drive). So I was
just wondering: is it just _appearing_ to copy the ten files and then pause
while it _actually_ copies them?

Are these large files, which it would normally take a noticeable time to
move (e. g. to, indeed, a pen drive say)?


  #13  
Old August 11th 06, 12:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.performance
J. P. Gilliver
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Default Slow file copying between two hard drives

"myPC" wrote in message
...
Thanks for that info. it saved me from reinstalling Windows 98 ... which I
had planned on doing today. I do indeed have one Maxtor and one Western
Digital hard drive....off to the computer store to buy another hard drive
I

[]
"Jonny" wrote in message
...
There is a hardware level ide communication problem with some Maxtors
used in same PC with some Western Digitals. Has nothing to do with the
OS

[]
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

[]
Before you do, I just want to check: when you say it copies about 10 files
and then pauses, how do you know it has actually copied them?

The reason I ask is that I've noticed this with pen (USB) drives: the moving
(I'm usually moving rather than copying) _appears_ to go at lightning speed,
but if you then tell it you want to unplug the drive, it says don't (and if
you actually do, it messes up the data, at least on the pen drive). So I was
just wondering: is it just _appearing_ to copy the ten files and then pause
while it _actually_ copies them?

Are these large files, which it would normally take a noticeable time to
move (e. g. to, indeed, a pen drive say)?


 




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