VERY log delay to browse local drive

[Oscar Vogel]

In Windows Explorer when the user clicks on the D drive (a local partition)
it takes a very long time before any folders appear. At first I thought it
was freezing up, ("not responding" in task manager) but if I wait long
enough (over a full minute), then I'm able to browse the drive.

The drive was extremely fragmented (file fragmentation was over 60%), so I
ran Windows defrag over night. But that didn't help.

I know that XP's defrag doesn't do anything w/ the Master File Table, but
the MFT only shows to have 3 fragments anyway, so I'm supposing that's not
it.

That D drive has plenty of free space (more than 50%).

On the other hand, the C drive (system & boot partition) only has 16% free
space & had is fairly fragmented (total= 10%, file= 20%). I haven't
defragged it because Windows told me it didn't need it yet, so I assumed
it's not causing the slow browsing on the D drive.

So what could be causing that hang up when clicking on the D drive.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

You should run CHKDSK /R on your drives to find and correct errors on the
drive, then defrag both drives. Note you will have to answer Yes to schedule
a checkdisk on next reboot, then reboot and let it run.

 

[Robbie]

Mine did that too. I shut off system restore, saving only that last restore
point (on all drives) and rebooted....folders appeared almost instantly
after that...then I turned system restore back on, of course. Hope that
helps...

 

[ppcc]

In Windows Explorer when the user clicks on the D drive (a local
partition)
it takes a very long time before any folders appear. At first I thought
it
was freezing up, ("not responding" in task manager) but if I wait long
enough (over a full minute), then I'm able to browse the drive.

The drive was extremely fragmented (file fragmentation was over 60%),
so I
ran Windows defrag over night. But that didn't help.

I know that XP's defrag doesn't do anything w/ the Master File Table,
but
the MFT only shows to have 3 fragments anyway, so I'm supposing that's
not
it.

That D drive has plenty of free space (more than 50%).

On the other hand, the C drive (system & boot partition) only has 16%
free
space & had is fairly fragmented (total= 10%, file= 20%). I haven't
defragged it because Windows told me it didn't need it yet, so I
assumed
it's not causing the slow browsing on the D drive.

So what could be causing that hang up when clicking on the D drive.

Thanks!

Was the defrag completed? On ur drives, run a disk cleanup first,
delete unnecessary stuff, run chkdsk and defragment, you could run it
in safe Mode. If its taking too long, download a third party tool which
is faster, in fact if ur drive tends to get fragmented very fast, u can
set the defragmenter to run regularly.

 

[bumtracks]

one might try disabling active virus scan
to see if its the culprit