Sorry for long explanation, I tried to go off memory of what I’ve been noticing with transfer speeds for my non SSD HDD OS, after installing my SSD for my W7 OS....I thought it was just my imagination, but now I'm sure.
I noticed my OS the SSD is installed on is faster, that’s good, but when I boot into my other OS(I dual-boot W7[64bit] and XP[32-bit] - each on there own HDD), my XP OS is slower to transfer files from within my 3rd HDD (internal HDD, no OS on it, used for storage for both HDD/OS only) or to/from a USB flash driver. .
This happens for, say, a 100MB folders I copy, almost always stays on ‘…5 seconds remaining’ for WAY longer then 5 seconds.(currently rearranging everything on it to organize and burn some of it off)
For example, I moved 2 folders, one 75 GB and one 92 GB folder I’m going threw, from 3 levels into the storage HDD to the folder ‘Burn’ on the root of that same HDD (cut/paste).
Move dialog box came up, showed it was moving them, then disappeared, but looking at the folder where I cut from, the 92 GB folder was still there?!
I refreshed the window, but was still there…I though I can hear the HDD still working so I waited 1 minute, but still was there on re-fresh…so I moved it again…oddly said folder already existed in destination, I checked each properly, only about 8 GB was in new location, so I told it to cut/paste again, and ‘replace/add ‘ to folder already there.
Started move dialog box, then after awhile got error about couldn’t’ find source files, nothing to cut/paste.
Now the full folder is in the new location, all files/folders.
What is going on?!
Yes, I have updated all my anti-virus/spy-ware/add-ware programs and did full scans with both OSs, but everything is fine, no troubles at all.
I am currently in DOS, typing this on my laptop, and using scandisk/checkdisk on each HDDand going to test the HDDs with manufacture HDD testers next.
Since I do a scan/check-disk regularly I don’t think it will find anything, and that the HDDs (OS and Storage ) are good.
Anyone know what this might be and maybe have heard of this happening before?
Or am I thinking too fast?
Thanks in advance!
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