Moving files takes forever?

[Steve]

I just moved about 4G of Ghost Backup files to an external drive over
a USB connection, took about 2 minutes. But when I tried to move the
same files to another folder on my PC, the bar timer indicated 40
minutes - I cancelled the operation. Any idea why an internal file
move should take so long? Thanks!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If you have two hard drives on the same IDE cable, then the system needs to
stop the read while the write is occuring.

 

[Steve]

If you have two hard drives on the same IDE cable, then the system needs to
stop the read while the write is occuring.

One HD, moving to a different partition.