....(from hd to hd), to about 7.3 mb/s and I dunno what I've done to cause it
! After helping my brother on 'phone Ghost backup his PC, which took just a
few minutes for 16 gb's on his drive C:\ (ghosted to his 2nd hd D:\), I
suddenly realised that mine used to be that fast ! Recently my main PC has
been taking about an hour to "Ghost backup" about 20gb's.
I've been rummaging around XP Home ed. SP3+ and can't see anything
obvious...
Did a hd bench test copying a 1gb file from d:\ to c:\
Copy File Bench started...
Copy E:\Norton Backups\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i to
C:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i
Size: 1073576427
Time: 140172 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.304 MB/s
Copy File Bench ended,
.... ...what have I done !!!?
SATA II 80gb and 160gb hd's / SATA ports 1 and 2 respectively show as being
in UDMA 6 mode in Device Manager,
I have one IDE 80gb hd connected to the lone IDE port ...it shows as in
UDMA6
DVD rewriter and DVD ROM connected to Sata ports 3 and 4 ...I think
....and I put installed a SIL3132 2 port SATA card into a pci-e x1 card and
connected a 16ogb hd to it, and it's SCSI driver shows the hd is in UDMA6
mode ...pretty sure that problem didn't start at that time.
Tried...
Copy File Bench started...
Copy C:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i to D:\X2-6000_C_Drive001_s01.v2i
Size: 1073576427
Time: 145703 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.027 MB/s
Copy File Bench ended
....in case it's that pci sata card / hd E:\ --- hd's C and D are both on
notherboard SATA ports - just as bad !
....any clues as to where to rummage, ...I feel like I'm missing something
obvious somewhere.
regards, Richard
Microsoft Windows XP