Slow file copying between two hard drives

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myPC - 10 May 2006 18:38 GMT

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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John John - 10 May 2006 19:44 GMT

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

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myPC - 10 May 2006 20:22 GMT

Sorry, I forgot to include that info. They are IDE hard drives and yes,
each one is a master drive....any other ideas?

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myPC - 10 May 2006 23:35 GMT

I've tried removing the CD-ROM drives as well...no difference. Tried
reverting back to IE 5.5 as mentioned as a possible solution on one
website...no difference.

> Sorry, I forgot to include that info. They are IDE hard drives and yes,
> each one is a master drive....any other ideas?
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Jonny - 11 May 2006 12:37 GMT

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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myPC - 11 May 2006 16:39 GMT

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.

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J. P. Gilliver - 11 Aug 2006 00:01 GMT

> 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

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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

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>>> 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

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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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