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Subject: Another Slow Hard Drive Issue
Ack, I am having a problem. Access to my hard drive is a tad slow. I am running win 2K sp4, on a 1gig hz machine 768meg ram. I have a Maxtor 200gig hard drive on the second IDE channel. It is plugged into a removable tray. I recently went to device manager, disabled the drive, then removed it. Then stuck in another drive, enabled, copied files, disabled, and then removed it. Then I stuck the Maxtor back in and enabled it. All fine. Problem is that now the access time is about six times slower. It reads/writes correctly, never any errors, just takes longer to do the access. Also, the machine is very slow when doing large file copying, ie the mouse cursor drags and is slow. Before, everything was zippy copied large files many times faster than now, and the machine didnt suffer in performance when doing this copying. It takes about 12 mins now to copy 700 meg of data to or from another hard drive on a different ide channel. It is the master drive on the ide cable, w/a CDRW. Device Manager says for "Device 0": "Transfer Mode" is "DMA if available", and "Current Transfer Mode" is "Not Available". I tried another posters suggestion of forcing it to "PIO Only" rebooting, changing back, etc. No help. Everything is "Auto Detect", checked BIOS, etc. I dont know what is causing the problem, nothing has changed except that swap, any ideas? Where it says: "Device: Autodetection" that combo box is disabled. Thanks, -jim |
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