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03-18-2004, 11:13 PM
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I run Window ME at work on a 1 ghz Intel on a Gigabyte mobo. I had 12 mp3 files (about 40 meg)on my 4.3 gig fast scsi (50 pin) d drive running off an Advancsys card and was running out of room. I decided to make a sounds directory on the 20 gig c drive (ide). So i went into a dos prompt and ran xcopy32 d:\mp3\*.* c:\sounds. This was less than forty meg but it took over 3 hours. My cdroms are on this same cable and transfer data faster than that. It seems that the machine would read a very small block (maybe a second) and then immediately write it. So I tested another machine in the shop and it took less than 10 minutes to move 40 meg. Then I booted the Gigabyte machine from a win98 dos floppy to straight dos and then moved 4 meg of files. There was no difference even in straight dos. It was godawful SLOW. As I said my Scsi cdroms tranfer data faster thru the same card and cable. My question is "does anyone have any ideas at all about this mess? ANY AT ALL? EVERYONE?
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03-20-2004, 01:36 AM
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hi carl
try using the command copy instead of xcopy or just drag the files from explorer from one folder to the other
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03-20-2004, 01:36 AM
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hi carl
try using the command copy instead of xcopy or just drag the files from explorer from one folder to the other |
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