External Hard Drives

[CBoom]

it's the power options of the disk drives then...!

yes they stop spinning

can you check here in the control panel and check the disk setting

http://i39.tinypic.com/2w74jn6.png

see image above

Curiosity got the best of me, so I installed the shellex program. What a
neat
little goodie. So small, yet gives tons of information.
There were only five programs NOT meeting the criteria of Microsoft only.
Actually, eight, but since I have NVIDIA everything I went ahead and left
their
three in tact. Only one was an "unknown" and it had to do with Internet
Explorer (which I don't use). I didn't see any boost in speed opening the
drive
trees with the non-Microsoft shellexs gone. so be it.
One item that bothers me is when the externals sit idle for an hour or so,
they
seem to be asleep and that's when the problem really comes around.
I checked the "Power Options" and all are set to "Never". I don't
hibernate
anything. Anyway, thanks for your help and the two great programs you
suggested.

no problem, glad that I helped

just so you know, its probably a shell extension that I describe how to
get
rid of in the blog I posted earlier..

have fun!

I'll keep the URL, but at this moment, I'm happy with the performace of
XYplore.
I want to spend a couple of days playing with it.
Thanks for all your help.




ok listen to what you have to do>>>

go to my blog on this page and scroll down to where I say SOLUTION

http://computerboom.blogspot.com/2008/12/windows-explorer-crashes-in- sev
eral.htm
l

download that application (nirsoft shellext) and follow the instructions
to
disable the shell extensions TEMPORARILY

restart and see if this makes the drive access faster...

please report back


Hooked up the USBs to the back of the case. No improvement. Downloaded
XYplore, put a folder and shortcut on the desktop. Very, Very fast
!!!
However, I'm beginning to think this is a glitch somewhere.
Using XYplore, I clicked on the (+) sign next to a folder with 860
sub-folders,
and it took several seconds to show the contents. However, when I
clicked
another folder with 810 sub-folders using the folder name, and not
the
(+) sign,
the contents show immediately. Appreciate your help.

 

[AxeMan]

All the power options are set to "Never" and the "Power Scheme" is set to
"Minimal". They have been this way since day one.

it's the power options of the disk drives then...!

yes they stop spinning

can you check here in the control panel and check the disk setting

http://i39.tinypic.com/2w74jn6.png

see image above

Curiosity got the best of me, so I installed the shellex program. What a
neat
little goodie. So small, yet gives tons of information.
There were only five programs NOT meeting the criteria of Microsoft only.
Actually, eight, but since I have NVIDIA everything I went ahead and left
their
three in tact. Only one was an "unknown" and it had to do with Internet
Explorer (which I don't use). I didn't see any boost in speed opening the
drive
trees with the non-Microsoft shellexs gone. so be it.
One item that bothers me is when the externals sit idle for an hour or so,
they
seem to be asleep and that's when the problem really comes around.
I checked the "Power Options" and all are set to "Never". I don't
hibernate
anything. Anyway, thanks for your help and the two great programs you
suggested.

no problem, glad that I helped

just so you know, its probably a shell extension that I describe how to
get
rid of in the blog I posted earlier..

have fun!

I'll keep the URL, but at this moment, I'm happy with the performace of
XYplore.
I want to spend a couple of days playing with it.
Thanks for all your help.




ok listen to what you have to do>>>

go to my blog on this page and scroll down to where I say SOLUTION

http://computerboom.blogspot.com/2008/12/windows-explorer-crashes-in

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