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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 ... 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. -- Jonny "myPC" wrote in message ... 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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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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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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