Microsoft said:
I have PC PIV 2.8MHZ, Bus 800, 40GB 7200 RPM, 256 DDR Ram, But the copying
is very slowly when I copy files or Movies from partition to Partition or
from Disk to Disk
Regards,
Ahmed Hassan
A 2.8 MHz processor will seem very slow. A 2.8 GHz is recommended
Seriously, though, it sounds like Ultra DMA transfer mode is disabled.
Here's how we enable it:
1. Choose Start > Run.
2. Type in "devmgmt.msc" (no quotes) and press ENTER. (This is
the fastest way to access Device Manager.)
3. Under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers," double-click the IDE channel
your hard drive is connected to (usually Primary).
4. Click on the Advanced Settings tab and verify that Transfer Mode
is set to "DMA if available."
5. Click OK. You may need to reboot to see changes take effect.
While you're there, set both devices on all of your IDE channels to "DMA
if available." You should see a huge performance increase in data
transmission. Your hard drives will seem like flash RAM, and your
optical drives should see a little increase as well (particulary
DVD-[whatever] drives).
Moving files between partitions means that (save for spanned volumes)
you're working on the same disk, so that really can't be sped up too
much. However, moving from (physical) disk to another (physical) disk
should seem a lot faster now.
If that doesn't work, consider these alternatives:
- Make sure your drives are connected with 80-conductor cables, not
the older 40-pin variety.
- Make sure your drive is configured properly in the system BIOS.
- Make sure your drive controller can match or exceed your hard
drive's data transfer rate (an UDMA Mode 5 (100 MB/s) drive in a Mode 2
(33 MB/s) controller will only operate at Mode 2.
- If your drive controller is on a crowded PCI bus, remove some
extraneous add-in cards or consider a motherboard with onboard IDE or
RAID (RAID functionality can always be disabled, leaving you with an
extra IDE controller).
- If you need really fast drive access, consider RAID 0.
- Personally, I wouldn't run a Windows XP system with less than 512 MB
of RAM. If you're copying files while Windows is accessing the virtual
memory (page file) on your hard drive, you'll see a decrease in
performance. (Just be sure to buy PC3200 or higher or else you'll see a
major decrease in speed.) I'd recommend 1 GB if you're editing,
recording or transcoding these movies.
Tell me if that works.
______
Colin
