Hard Drive problem?

[egale]

I just installed a new hard drive in my system. It is a Western Digital 120gb WD1200JB with the 8mb buffer. It is the only drive and it is partitioned into 2.

Everything seems to work ok except when I go into Windows Explorer or PowerFile (Explorer replacement) to view contents of a folder. It is especially noticeable when I am listing folders which contain a large amount of jpgs. It takes forever for the system to display the dataset names along with the icon associated for the file type. Windows Explorer displays the list of files almost immediately and then completes showing the associated icon at the rate of about 1 per second. Power file does not display anything until it has the icon so it will list the dataset with its icon again at about 1 per second. If I have a large folder, the process may take a minute or so to complete.

I am wondering if this is normal for a drive with an 8 mb cache but in any case, it is intolerable.

Thanks for the help.

 

[SemperFi]

Did it act that way when you had the old hard drive installed?

 

[Tmf123]

I have a WD120GB 8mb cache drive as well and am not having this problem. Sounds like an option where the icons are set to be drawn in a higher detail than normal.

 

[egale]

The machine did not have the problem with the old drive. I was looking for some option to change the way icons are drawn and could not find one.

 

[mitaiwan82]

Originally posted by: Tmf123
I have a WD120GB 8mb cache drive as well and am not having this problem. Sounds like an option where the icons are set to be drawn in a higher detail than normal.

Same here...I have had no noticeble lagging problems with this drive under WinXP Pro.