I/O performance is twice slower than before

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I highly recommend you contact Dell Tech support to help
you solve your problem. You seem to have done all the
obvious, now let Dell help you with the non-obvious.


>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
> I've a Windows XP Home Edition PC with following
specs.
>-Dell 2GHZ CPU
>-512MB SDRAM
>-80GB HDD on 1st controller
>-NEC DV_5800 DVD-ROM on 2nd separate controller as master
>-Acer DVD+RW DVD drive on 2nd separate controller as
slave
>-Windows XP SP1
>
>Normally, I was copying a large 7GB data from my NEC dvd-
>rom drive to harddrive at 33 Minutes completion, and now
>it is taking twice as long at 56 Minutes completion.
>Something has slowdown my bootup time and I/O speed
>reduction. I have had tried defragment, msconfig, stop
>few unneccessary services, drivers digitally signed, hot
>patches, and so on. But I still got slowness and no
event
>viewer error other than DCOM+ in system.
>
>I need help to speedup my I/O transfer speed between my
>DVD devices and HDD. And I want to avoid re-install XP
OS.
>
>Please send me your recommendations to my e-mail and
>thanks alot for your help!
>
>Anthony,
>Nov. 14, 2003
>
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