Slow hard drive

[sandyone]

Maxtor 160gig sata has gone very slow [not partitioned] [about 60g of data on drive]

Transferred date via Norton Ghost to a similar 80g drive: that works OK.

Any ideas what problem is???


Sandyone

PS will post more info if reqd

[zekrahminator]

Yeah...it's a Maxtor :p. Okay fine maybe the drive is good. I remember when I had problems with my WD SATA2 drive being crazy. Remember to...

Remove any external drives, that makes windows go CRAZY.
Correctly set jumpers, there should be some documentation on top of your hard drive.
Install SATA drivers for your chipset and make sure they are up to date.
Update your motherboard's BIOS.

If none of those work, I wouldn't be surprised if you had a bad drive, and should return it ASAP.

[Yin]

Might be your motherboard chipset drivers

[Alec§taar]

Remove any external drives, that makes windows go CRAZY.

"Z", I have to ask - how does this slow-down a system?

(I need to know where you got this information so I can verify it, because I nearly CONSTANTLY have an external USB 2.0 SATA connected external disk (running a WD Raptor 74gb 10,000 rpm 8mb buffered SATA hdd) attached to my machines! It's storage for downloads & such, etc. here...)

* I am NOT trying to "confront you" on facts here, but, I need verification of this!

(I.E.-> I may have been "hosing myself" on benchmark tests here, because of it nearly always being connected up to my system here...)

APK

P.S.=> Nifty tag too, I never knew there was a "LIST & /LIST" set... live & learn, not a wasted day! apk

[Alec§taar]

Might be your motherboard chipset drivers

This might be a GOOD solid point - because for instance, I know that various chipset drivers exist for IDE (ASUS ships such a set in fact & they are an "optional" installation during their mobo/chipset driver installation)...

APK

[zekrahminator]

I don't know how it slows it down, I just know that windows goes crazy if I have my USB drive in my computer while trying to boot windows :laugh:. And I got the list trick off of Wazzledoozle.

[Alec§taar]

I don't know how it slows it down, I just know that windows goes crazy if I have my USB drive in my computer while trying to boot windows :laugh:. And I got the list trick off of Wazzledoozle.

Ah, ok... I can see it possibly "messing w/ it" @ bootup, especially during installations!

(I have had that happen as well - I have to pull USB disks, my IoMega 250mb internal IDE unit, & also activate my onboard SATA as well (in order for my current system to even recognize & install to the actual disks I wish to boot from here (RAID 0 via the Promise Caching Controller I use)).

* It's odd, but it is how it is... I can turn them all on again (IoMega & USB etc.) & then my normal onboard SATA & RAID firmware from the mobo, off, once I get Windows into place & fully installed...

(NOW? I see your point!)

APK

P.S.=> Thought you meant during regular "in Windows GUI" operations... Yea, that LIST tag could be neat for helping easily & neatly do "enumerated/bulleted lists" & such! apk

[randomperson21]

i'd check drivers, as long as you think the physical drive itself is good.
mainly chipset drivers.
for example, my nforce4 chipset drivers had ide+sata drivers on them that helped a lot.

[Alec§taar]

i'd check drivers, as long as you think the physical drive itself is good.
mainly chipset drivers.
for example, my nforce4 chipset drivers had ide+sata drivers on them that helped a lot.

Damn straight/agreed, 100% here...

:)

* I was leaning that direction above/earlier myself as was Yin, whom I made the same general commentary to!

APK