Hardrive delay in a single folder: why???

[ShyGuy91284]

I've got a WinXPSE, primary SATA HDD on a PCI card, a DVD burner as primary on channel 1, a few other drives, and a WD 80 GB drive as Master on channel 2. For some reason, when I try to open and sometimes write to a certain folder it has like a 30 second delay before it registers anything. It isn't loaded with a few thousand files. Anyone know what may be causing this? They are both defragged.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Try going to Start > Run > cmd and run "chkdsk"

 

[Souka]

or...

Double click My computer
Right Click the Drive and choose properties
Click Tools Tab
Click Check Now
Select both check boxes and reboot.

It will take ahwile to complete, but let us know if it helped.....


good luck!

 

[ShyGuy91284]

No errors detected.

 

[Slikkster]

Question: Why the choice of channels? I'd think that the HD would be better suited on Channel 1 vs. 2. Additionally, are DVD burners compatible with SATA? I'd try moving the DVD burner to a normal IDE and get it off the SATA bus. Then, see if there's a problem.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

Whoops, should have worded that better. Burner is on IDE channel 1 as Master. DVD burner on SATA??? talk about wasted bandwidth, lol. I'll probably try swapping the channel cables soon to see if that helps. But I wouldn't think a different channel would effect the HD that way.

 

[vietofmars]

Is the folder on the SATA HD or ide channel 2 HD?

Check if dma is enabled on the ide hd.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

IDE Channel 2 HD

 

[vietofmars]

Is the folder full of mp3's or movie files? Whenever I open up folders with just mp3's or video files, XP goes and fills out the details for each file in the artist, length, etc columns. That takes awhile. You can disable columns with right click on column name.

Same thing with thumbnail view, diable it if you don't need it.

Or you can try copying all your stuff to a different folder and see if the same thing happens.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

Yeah, I might try copying it for the hell of it. And no, it isn't loaded with media files. My media folder doesn't have any problems like that and it has thumbnails enabled.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

Any chance it could be a FAT32 conflict? I have it formatted as FAT32 so that my linux Distro can read/write to it also. And it wouldn't be beyond Microsoft to have an "error" so that a drive readable by linux would have some problems.....