Looking for Fast Large File Copy Utility

[estevek]

I have a Windows 98 SE system. It has a 233 Mhz Pentium and a max of 128 MB of memory. When I use file manager to copy large gigabyte files, it is very slow. Is there a better utility that might copy large files more efficiently?

Thanks

E Steve K

[doctorgonzo]

Are you copying files across the network or just on disk? In both cases, it is far more likely that the bottleneck is somewhere other than the code that is doing the file copying.

[estevek]

I'm actually trying to copy disk to disk and they're both 7200 rpm. The bottleneck could be in my clunky proc/mutterbd/memory, but I figured I'd look and see if there was some more efficient software before accepting the HW as the limitation.

In the "Good" Ol' DOS days, I remember utilities like Xcopy and Ncopy (Netware) were much faster than just plain copy. I think they set up bigger buffers and moved the file in bigger chunks.

[glc]

If the drives are on the same IDE cable, there's your bottleneck. The IDE bus is a one way bus. Put the second drive on the secondary cable.

[estevek]

glc, I guess you're saying the IDE bus is half duplex. I just double checked and they are on separate cables

[glc]

Now check to make sure both drives have DMA enabled. In 98, it's in the properties of the drives in device manager.