Slow Hard Drive

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nelis

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I got a Western Digital 320GB SATAII that been very slow lately. I can only transfer to about 4mb/s of the drive. The things I tried:

1.Defrag
2.Checkdisk
3. Virus scan

and all that sorted out It still is slow. Maybe the drive is busy dieing. Any suggestions. thanks
 
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same problem

I have the exact same problem. Did you recently install another SATA device? It started happening after I installed a SATA DVD writer.
 
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running xp. I just run windows 7 and transfer rate is normal there so must be an xp issue with this drive. It's just this drive
 
I already did with hdd tune and it says the hdd is ok. but isn't it starange that it's normal in windows7 and slow in xp
 
nelis said:
I got a Western Digital 320GB SATAII that been very slow lately. I can only transfer to about 4mb/s of the drive. The things I tried:

1.Defrag
2.Checkdisk
3. Virus scan

and all that sorted out It still is slow. Maybe the drive is busy dieing. Any suggestions. thanks
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One of two things happen with WD... you either have hell, or it will last forever. Personally, I've only had hell with their products. My first HDD for my pc was WD, and it took about 5 min to start windows (A fresh install). When I bought a different HDD...it booted up in 30 seconds.
 
look you people are not listening wat i'm saying. I have many other WD drives and it works fine. This drive works fine in windows7 but not in XP. so maybe there's something in xp I must do to make it faster. I did also change my sata cable and it's not working. I also got a p45 mobo if that helps
 
i think i have something that might help,it's just like the cable between ur harddrive and ur motherboard but there is this tiny black box in the middle of the cable saying +200Mbps speed so i think it will make ur harddrive transfer faster to ur motherboard,soz don't know what it's called i just got it when i builded up my old PC and it's very fast.
 
Try checking what transfer mode it is using in XP. Obviously if it works in Windows 7 fine that rules out any hardware related problem.
 
My hard drive is pio mode but can't change it. how do I change it if I can't through device manager?
 
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nelis said:
running xp. I just run windows 7 and transfer rate is normal there so must be an xp issue with this drive. It's just this drive
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Dude, you answered your own question: DRIVERS

Had the same issue and reinstalled my SATA drivers and all is well (replaced cables; flashed BIOS; reformatted; scanned for errors)

BTW: I use to knock WD (Seagate fanboy) but after we lost 5 Seagates in our new servers I will buy WD over Seagate any day.
 
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My hard drive is pio mode but can't change it. how do I change it if I can't through device manager?
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Yip, this is exactly what I thought the problem is. Search on Google to change PIO to DMA. You should be able to find a page that shows you how to edit a registry setting. Sorry, I would link it for you but I'm browsing from my cell. if you don't come right let me know and I'll fire up the laptop and send a link.
 
Thanks for the help guys. I really appreciate it. I have uninstall the drivers and reinstall it and now it's better and sho its very fast as well. I tested it with HD Tach and it got 202.9MB/s. Wooohooo Mybroadband FTW
 
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