Re: Installed 2 new hard drives now file copy is very slow

Have you tried using an Air Duster to remove dust bunnies inside the
computer casing?

Operating temperature in link:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=42

HD Tune does have a Bench Marking feature,. Not that I would profess to
fully understand how it works.

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Moxie wrote:
Hi Gerry

Here is the info:

HD Tune: WDC WD2500JB-55REA0 Information

Firmware version : 20.00K20
Serial number : WD-WCANKH677366
Capacity : 232.9 GB (~250.1 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-7
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label :
Capacity : 238472 MB
Usage : 36.27%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes


HD Tune: WDC WD2500JB-55REA0 Information

Firmware version : 20.00K20
Serial number : WD-WCANKH677536
Capacity : 232.9 GB (~250.1 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-7
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : E:\
Label : DRV4_VOL1
Capacity : 238472 MB
Usage : 8.20%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No


Temperature is high for both drives (57F for C and 54F for E). These
are installed in a small form factor ShuttlePC enclosure...

Any suggestions?

Moxie


"Gerry" wrote:

Try running HD Tune(freeware).

Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Moxie wrote:
I recently upgraded the hard drives in my PC (Win XP Pro SP2). I
duplicated my old 110Gb HD to a new WD 250 Gb HD using Acronis
Migrate Easy 7 and then switched the drives. I then added a second
WD 250 Gb HD (identical specs and both brand new). Both drives are
EIDE 8MB/ATA100.

XP launches fine but I have discovered that file operations (file
copy, move, etc...) take a very long time. Sometimes the PC also
takes a long time to respond to commands (mouse clicks, etc...) and
some apps do not launch anymore (Internet Explorer, Firefox) while
others run fine.

Both HDs are set to Cable Select. Each on a separate cable (2nd
hard drive uses ribbon cable that fisrt connects to internal DVD
drive.

I performed a full defrag on the main drive and everything looks
fine except for the above issues. How can I restore performance and
missing apps?

Moxie


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