External HDDs Problem, pls help!

[freemanteo]

I have 2 USB 2.0 40gb drives. I am using WinXP home. Both formated NTFS. Both connected to my USB 2.0 PC card.

Everything works fine EXCEPT the transfering of files between the both drives. It takes 5-6hrs just to transfer 2gb of data.

Nothing is wrong with my PC Card nor my External drives. I suspect settings on my WinXP.

Pls help, thanks.

 

[corkyg]

You could do it faster by copying one drive to a cache on your regular HDD - then copy from it to the other USB drive. USB 2 data transfer to itself ain't all that great.

 

[NormanTheCow]

USB 2.0 Cable??

how about trying transfer same files using USB 1.1 port...see if that takes same amount of time.

 

[freemanteo]

i am sure the cables provided by the manufacturer are USB 2.0, but i will double check later.


How do i copy it to a cache on my regular HDD? My regular HDD is only 20GB! 🙁

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: freemanteo
I have 2 USB 2.0 40gb drives. I am using WinXP home. Both formated NTFS. Both connected to my USB 2.0 PC card.

Everything works fine EXCEPT the transfering of files between the both drives. It takes 5-6hrs just to transfer 2gb of data.

Nothing is wrong with my PC Card nor my External drives. I suspect settings on my WinXP.

Pls help, thanks.

Are they 2.5" drives?

How do i copy it to a cache on my regular HDD? My regular HDD is only 20GB!

Well you 'kinda' implied earlier that it was 2gb of data you were trying to copy. And you could do it in chunks.

Thorin

 

[freemanteo]

How do i copy to a cache? Just copy alittle by alittle to my HDD and then to my other external HDD?

i think they are regular HDDs in enclosures, one is anyway, the other i am not sure.

 

[freemanteo]

anyone!