Whats wrong with my harddrive?

[BBock7271]

i have a 160gig sata seagate and a 250 ide maxtor. It seems that my IDE drive (used for storage) has started going REALLY slow. To transfer 4.5gigs from my ide to my sata, its taking 10+ minutes. UNRARing on my IDE drive is taking at least 3 times as long as unraring on my SATA drive. This has never happened before.

I also am having problems burning dvds from that IDE drive, but i had made a seperate thread about that before, cuz i thought it was my dvd burner, but it now looks more like my harddrive.


Could any setting have messed up? Its NTFS and im running Winxp SP2

 

[suicidalpigeon]

defragment.

 

[BBock7271]

and if its not that?

 

[twitchee2]

its a maxtor right? might wanna back it all up

 

[suicidalpigeon]

even if you heard about maxtor's improvements, its still not safe to buy their stuff. i may have one (250gig@$70) but only to test that theory and to store more pr0n.

 

[BBock7271]

its a maxtor.. i dont think i can get the stuff off it fast enough.. its 200 gigs and transfering is slow as crap.

i try frag test and it says 4% total fragmentation and says i dont need it, any ideas of what it could be?

 

[BBock7271]

any ideas? whats the program to check your hdd speeds?

 

[BBock7271]

i used HD tune to test my speeds.. im getting 4.2mb/s from my IDE on avg and 99.8% cpu usage, while w/ my SATA im getting 43mb/s on avg w/ 3% cpu usage..

It has to be a setting, its a maxtor 250gb and its running in UDMA Mode 6

 

[BBock7271]

other people w/ the same drive have these speeds....47.7mb/s avg and 4% cpu usage.. WHY ISNT MINE LIKE THIS!?

Somethin is seriously wrong....

 

[BBock7271]

bump any suggestions

 

[Uncle Flappy]

DMA on?

 

[BBock7271]

i think thats the problem.. DMA, i keep reinstalling my IDES, but they keep resetting back to DMA off some how. I had this prob w my DVD Burner too. What do i do??

 

[nweaver]

have you checked the transfer mode for the controller in Device Manager? Bios might say DMA 6, windows might say PIO (this happened to me)

 

[Nocturnal]

It's possible your hard drive is started to fail.

 

[BBock7271]

when i reinstalled my IDEs, the transfer speeds went up to normal. I gotta figure out how to keep the DMAs the same and not have them change each time i restart... i have the same problem w/ my DVD burner....

 

[furballi]

Uncheck all items in MSCONFIG's Startup tab. Could be a rogue application.

 

[pibb]

have you tried to change out IDE cables? also are you sure your DVDBurner and HD isn't running off the same IDE channel??

 

[w00t]

My Computer>right click on drive>click on properties>click tools tab>click both options>click start.

 

[BBock7271]

its possible its a rogue app... , no they arent on the same IDE

 

[BBock7271]

what would get this rogue app off my comptuer if it is an app? Adaware, Nortons Antivirus etc?

 

[pibb]

try switching around your DVD Burner/Harddrive IDE ribbons and see if you dont see any difference

 

[Uncle Flappy]

Originally posted by: BBock7271
when i reinstalled my IDEs, the transfer speeds went up to normal. I gotta figure out how to keep the DMAs the same and not have them change
each time i restart... i have the same problem w/ my DVD burner....

"...Each time I restart..."
How do you have the transfer rate set in the BIOS?

 

[BBock7271]

Uncle: Its set as AUTO

 

[edmundoab]

Originally posted by: twitchee2
its a maxtor right? might wanna back it all up

LOL, what an implicationt that its gonna break down real soon =)

 

[Uncle Flappy]

Originally posted by: BBock7271
Uncle: Its set as AUTO

Oops - it's that reading thing, sorry.

Have you tried re-installing your NFORCE drivers?