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Hard-disk tooooooooooo slowwwwwww

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george101
george101 Original post #1
Aug 15, 2007 at 7:14 PM
i just brought a seagate 250gb sataII harddisk. its toooo slow when i copy anything from or to it......... its takes almost half an hour to copy just 300mb. i already have a 160gb seagate harddisk and its very fast when compared to this. wat might be the problem guyss......... is it sumthing with the harddisk or any other problem???????????????
Choto Cheeta
Choto Cheeta #2
Aug 15, 2007 at 7:37 PM
What is the System Config ??

One thing I personally noticed that When Buying new HDD, always for the 1st time do a full Format of the Drive before using, as it gives better performace, so try running a full format of the entire drive (not Quick Format) and then test with NTFS partition... also please post the details of ur full system config....
slugger
slugger #3
Aug 15, 2007 at 8:57 PM
have u enabled UDMA?
george101
george101 #4
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:08 PM
config:
intel core2duo e6300
intel dg965ss mobo
samsung 160gb sataII, seagate 160gb sataII, seagate 250gb sataII, samsung 80gb pata
leadtek 7300le 256mb
1gb ddrII

how to enable udma

i tried full formatting also.... no use yaar....i partitioned it as three 77gb drives.... do u think it is the problem.... plz help
champ_rock
champ_rock #5
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:21 PM
not sure what is exactly UDMA.. i think u mean DMA (direct memory access)

also, i have noticd that windows 98 , ME take a lot of time as they have some different kind of file transfer engine.. use windows xp for best results
george101
george101 #6
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:24 PM
how to enable dma then??? i am using xp
Choto Cheeta
Choto Cheeta #7
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Go to Device Manager

Now nagivate to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

un-install all entry under that, when done, restart, system will auto metically reset the UDMA :D

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Note, In my case its Nvidia in ur case it would be Intel Controllers... and restart after u un-install all :p
george101
george101 #8
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:43 PM
i tried full ormatting and also set dma.... still no use........ i dnt knw wat to do....
Choto Cheeta
Choto Cheeta #9
Aug 15, 2007 at 10:47 PM
^^^

Did u try what I wrote ??
S
Sawmendra #10
Aug 16, 2007 at 11:11 PM
george101 said:
config:
intel core2duo e6300
intel dg965ss mobo
samsung 160gb sataII, seagate 160gb sataII, seagate 250gb sataII, samsung 80gb pata
leadtek 7300le 256mb
1gb ddrII

how to enable udma

i tried full formatting also.... no use yaar....i partitioned it as three 77gb drives.... do u think it is the problem.... plz help
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Connect your Pata 80 gb to secondery channel dont connect anything to primary channel and try.

your smps watt????
freshseasons
freshseasons #11
Aug 16, 2007 at 11:51 PM
For all that there is to know, it may just as well be a hard drive, hardware problem.
Try replacing it with another harddrive.
Given the situation, even if we consider that you do no have DMA on or did ,Quick formatting the disk, still 300mb in half an hr is slower than any old CD rom drive in PIO mode ,forget this being a harddisk.
Please have it changed and see if the same thing happens.