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MurdarMachene

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Yesterday, I was un-raring a five megabyte .rar file (which I think ended up being 17 at the end), and when I started doing it, windows said "55 minutes remaining". I was like WHAT THE HELL DID I PAY FOR, I have a 74 gig 10k rpm SATA drive, and 55 minutes remaining to un-rar a 5 mb file and copy it to C:? So I sit there in anger, then all of a sudden it says "7 minutes remaining". Still unacceptable, however lessened. I was still wondering what the hell was wrong with my comp. I sat there, watching each file take nearly a minute to copy to the C drive.

My computer will also lag for a long time if I right-click on any defunct shortcuts that the target folder for has been renamed or moved.

I'm thinking this problem is either a hard drive issue, or a virtual memory issue.,

my specs:

a64 3400+
1 gig pc3200 ocz platinum rev 2
74 and 34 gig 10k rpm sata
k8n-e deluxe mobo
 
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theMan

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how long did it take total? windows is really bad a calculating remaining time. one time, i was copying something, and it said 12341 mins for the longest time, but then it went to 20 sec.
 
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klah

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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
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BurnItDwn

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Originally posted by: randym431
Flaky things like that, in my experience, means a drive going bad.
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Yup, unfortunatly ... that's what it means when it happens to me as well.
 
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MurdarMachene

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Yeah, and have fun playing The Specialists (wow my link went to some stupid microsoft site) on that pentium 2.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand...

The drive could be failing. One of the first days after I built this PC, it randomly shut off, and the hard drive made a really scary, loud, grinding noise, like the needle just went scratching across it and the disc just went spinning wildly. That's the only time it's ever done that. It was like BZZ!!!!!!! Short but loud, then tapered off.

I've run WINDLG, the western digital scanning utility that looks for bad sectors. I've found none. It says both my drives are fine.


As far as time spent copying the file goes:
Total time it took was not 55 minutes.

The total time taken was probably anywhere from 5-10 minutes max.

The main thing that was taking a long time, from what it looked like, was the un-raring of the files, not the copying. I could look in winrar and see the progress bar just taking a long time on each file, when it should have been nearly instantaneous.
 
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The Pentium Guy

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Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Originally posted by: randym431
Flaky things like that, in my experience, means a drive going bad.
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Yup, unfortunatly ... that's what it means when it happens to me as well.
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Yeah man. This is exaclty what happened to my other Maxtor drive before it died.
 
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MurdarMachene

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Wow, what a piece of crap hard drive, I just bought this thing like 6 or 7 months ago. You've gotta be kidding me, right? Is there any way I can test to see if it's failing?

Also, could I exchange this drive for a new one if I mailed it to WD?

It kinda seems like the computer tries to be "smart" about usage, so it goes retarded to certain files and folders if I haven't moved or used them in a while. Like, just now, I went to click on my quicklaunch menu, and it took like 2 seconds to pop up. normally it's instant. It just goes "duh, you don't want these old things anymore, I'm not ready to open stuff like that".
 
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fstime

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I believe it has a 5 year warranty.

I have had my raptor for a while now, at LEAST a year.....

I have never had a WD hard drive fail...

Then again, I have never had any of my hard drives fail...
 
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mettleh3d

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raptors are too expensive and low capacity. if u do get it replaced, opt for a 7200 rpm. Slower, less likely to fail (lower speeds/power consumption) and tons of extra space for a fraction of the cost
 
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MurdarMachene

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Why do my two raptors show up as the last two IDE devices on my motherboard bios' main page?

I tried taking them off of IDE, but the computer wouldn't boot. What gives? Those aren't in any way hooked up to an IDE cable, they're hooked up by sata to a sata plugin on my motherboard. Yet they show up on the IDE listings. Is this wrong?
 
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MurdarMachene

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Oh, another thing.

If I make a shortcut to something, then I move the target folder or rename it, it takes like 10 seconds to even right-click the icon to delete it. I just tested this on my friend's comp, and it does no such thing. What the hell did I pay for? Super Fast raptor, can't right click for 10 seconds! Awesome. This was a good investment.

Does anyone know any fixes for the myriad of stupid problems I have with my retarded computer?
 
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imported_michaelpatrick33

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Your Raptor should definitely not be removable (SATA does have Hotswap capability). The above poster with the funny name loba... makes a good point. Sounds like a driver or hard-drive that has write caching turned off to me. (Make sure you check your processes while not running a program to ensure no spyware crap is sneaking by your checks as well.
 
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Confusednewbie1552

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Originally posted by: MurdarMachene
Do you have a SATA raptor?

does it show http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/xnobodyTS/SATA.jpg that icon in the corner during normal windows operation?

I think it's treating my hard drives as removeable, because I hooked them up wrong or something. Is that possible? I hooked them up into the "dumb" port, perhaps?
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I have a Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM that is SATA. I have that icon on my pc too; when I asked what it was, somebody told me that SATA drives are hotswapple or something, anyway my raptors fine =) Now if I can only make it quieter...
 
RichUK

RichUK

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Originally posted by: MurdarMachene
Hey dudes how do I make sure cache is enabled? thanks doodz.
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check in the BIOS.. you will have the option to enable/disable .. and should be enabled by default ..

EDIT sorry you asked how to do this: when you see your PC first boot up you will see a black screen with writing all over it, or a logo if it is set to quick boot .. if you hit either "Del" or "F2" on the keyboards depends what BIOS it is at the beginning .. this will allow you to enter the BIOS .. NOTE: dont mess around with enything you dong know about in there as you could cripple you system and then have to reset the CMOS <- = more unnecessary work.. if you have a look under one of the main options, you will see a list of config options and just find the one states Cache, and make sure it is enabled .. the save settings to the CMOS ..
 
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