Weird problem with slave drive ,,pls any help?

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I've got a system running winxp , 512 mg ram , 200g hd as master , 160g hd
as a slave .

There's a weird thing happening when i open up a directory in the slave
drive.
If i click on "d" and open it up when i have other things going on ,ie:
surfing , listening to music etc ,it runs fine ,, as soon as i open up a
folder on the "d" drive , all of a sudden the whole system starts to slow
to a crawl ,,, if i close that folder the speed comes back up.

I've run spyware and virus software on the folder ,but nothing.

This drive was just installed not that long ago and the folders were
transfered over from another older drive that it was replacing ,, but only
this one folder on the drive seems to cause the system to slow.

Any suggestions???
 
I've got a system running winxp , 512 mg ram , 200g hd as master , 160g hd
as a slave .

There's a weird thing happening when i open up a directory in the slave
drive.
If i click on "d" and open it up when i have other things going on ,ie:
surfing , listening to music etc ,it runs fine ,, as soon as i open up a
folder on the "d" drive , all of a sudden the whole system starts to slow
to a crawl ,,, if i close that folder the speed comes back up.

I've run spyware and virus software on the folder ,but nothing.

This drive was just installed not that long ago and the folders were
transfered over from another older drive that it was replacing ,, but only
this one folder on the drive seems to cause the system to slow.

Any suggestions???
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reproduce the problem and open the task manager.
Is any task spiking the CPU? What task is it?

Dave
 
Hi Louis,

Just a thought, but is there an autorun.inf file on the root of D:? If so,
try deleting it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hi Louis,

Just a thought, but is there an autorun.inf file on the root of D:? If
so, try deleting it.
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no there's no file like that ,,, and the thing is ,, if D: is open the
machine runs fine ,, but when i open the folder in question on D: then it
starts to make the machine crawl.
 
LouisG said:
no there's no file like that ,,, and the thing is ,, if D: is open the
machine runs fine ,, but when i open the folder in question on D: then
it starts to make the machine crawl.
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Check to make sure the drive is using the correct data transfer mode.
See MVP Hans-Georg Michna's page about the issue:
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke
 
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