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09-25-2004, 04:05 PM
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Massive slowdown in XP when copying to External HD
Ok, well I am backing up all of my stuff... documents, movies, music, installers, all that good stuff, which add's up to around 30GB's in total(way more then I had thought... need to clean it out...). Since I don't have my other computer here anymore, I decided to use an older 80GB Firewire external HD to back up my data, and when I selected my folder to move(which contains all the info I need to keep) and dragged it over to the drive, my computer pretty much froze up. Moving from MSN windows to Firefox took forever, music took 30 seconds to start playing after one song ended. This happened when I moved my music to the drive as well(forgot to add it the 1st time). I wouldn't mind to much normally since I don't really use the HD that much, but I have to transfer files back to my computer after the reformat, and I dont want to bring it all back this time but if my computer is going to lock up basically after anything is being sent to my computer, I don't even want to know how long it would take to get all the stuff I need back into XP after my reformat. ANy idea's on the cause for the massive slowdown? Thanks ahead of time.
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09-26-2004, 02:49 AM
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Copying massive amounts of large files will use 100% of your CPU, ram, and hit the swapfile hard. Start the copy operation when you go to bed. Also - COPY, do not MOVE!
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09-26-2004, 02:45 PM
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Darn it...
 Might I ask why I shouldnt Move it, since it just Copies it anyways to the new place? |
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09-26-2004, 02:49 PM
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because if you move instead of copy, and something happens during the moving, its possible to lose your file. learned that the hard way
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09-26-2004, 04:40 PM
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Oh, well then I guess I will be sure to copy. Thanks for the heads up.
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09-26-2004, 05:29 PM
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Also, when you MOVE, it wastes a LOT of time because it has to delete each file after it copies it.
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