Slow copying speeds

PunterCam

PunterCam

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I've been getting my old 1.8ghz athlon64, 512mb ram, xp sp3 sorted out recently - I discovered all its wierd behaviour was due to it's power supply.

It runs beautifully now, except for one thing - it's incredibly slow to copy things. Example - I tried to make a copy of a 1gb folder (copied in program files, pasted in another file on the same disk). It takes 5 minutes. Obviously this should take a few seconds.

I have a seagate 80gb pata drive installed, with a 10gb partition for windows, and the rest as storage. Both partitions are pretty empty with loads of free space. I don't know if it's relevant, but the icon for the bigger partition in my computer is a usb dongle with wireless 'waves' above it.

Things (games etc) install perfectly on the drive, and are loaded quickly.


It's not that much of an issue, but I'd like to resolve it.

Any ideas?

cheers
 
I find when ever my HDD is acting up or going slow a format is in order. Over time no matter what you do the PC gets sloppy and slow.

I have a spare 500GB storage unit that I put all the files I wanna keep on a format Vista every 4-5 months. Takes about 1 hour to install/update and install all my programs.

You could try Tuneup Utlities last I checked there was a 30 day trial you could use it will allow you to clean your PC up safley and you can defrag your registry etc. Might help performance.
 
I've defragged recently, but it's not that kind of thing.

It's really, really slow - like windows thinks it's copying to a usb1.0 device or something, which would tie in with the usb wireless dongle image representing it in 'my computer'.

The computer itself is running really nicely; it's clean, every thing's up-to-date, so I'm sure cleaning it out etc... wouldn't make a difference.
 
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