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Slow h/d copy from SATA to IDE????
I have an XP (sp2) system on my SATA drive and a Windows 2000 (sp4) on
my IDE drive, all on my MSI K9NBPM2-FID motherboard with an AM2 5600+ processor. This motherboard has both IDE and SATA, and my IDE drive is housed in a removable tray. When I boot up in Windows 2000 and copy an mpeg file (1.5 gigabytes) from my SATA drive to my IDE drive it completes in 10 to 20 seconds. But, when I boot up in XP (sp2) and copy the same mpeg file from SATA to IDE, it takes about 9 minutes. When I go into control panel/hardware/device manager/IDE controllers/ Advanced Settings (in my XP system) it shows DMA if available (NOT PIO). I do not understand why Windows 2000 can copy this exact same file from the exact same location to the exact same destination in about 20 seconds but my XP system takes about 9 minutes???????? It so happens I have the XP system configured also to be on a network to a nearby PC, and I can copy this same mpeg file from the SATA over the network to the nearby PC in about 3 minutes, so, I am dumbfounded as to why XP takes so long to copy from SATA to IDE. If I didn't have win2k installed on this same PC (to the IDE) drive and saw for myself how fast Win2k completed the very same transfer, I wouldn't believe it. There must be something bizarre about the way my XP system is configured - any ideas? |
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