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Why is file copying so slow?

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assemblage

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I have some large filles on one my "slave" physical hard drive. I want to copy them to my primary physical hard drive. I open Windows Exporer and select a few of them and drag them over to where I want them copied. It takes a long time!

The files are between 200mg to 700mb. Total transfer would be about 1.5gb. It takes like 15 minutes to do this. Is this normal? Both drives are 7200RPM, one is a 20gb Maxtor with 2mb cache and ATA133, the other is a new 120gb Western Digital with 8mb cach and ATA100. I figure that even if the data is transfered at 33mb/sec it should only take about a minute.

I can actually select the files individually and copy them one at a time and do it faster. It's as if the selecting multiple files causes a performance problem.

Is this a windows xp problem? Is there a program that will allow me to copy these files faster? Anyone have any suggestions about what's going on and how to fix it?


My system:
AMD XP1600
MSI KT3 Ultra (Via KT333)
1 GB 333mhz DDR RAM
20GB Maxtor ATA133 with 2mb cach
120GB Western Digital ATA100 with 8mb cache
Chaintech Geforce 4 TI4200 64mb ram video card
Diamond Monster Sound MX440
Netgear NIC

running Windows XP Pro with latest patches
 
Can you try moving one of the hard drives to the secondary IDE channel? Transfers between drives on the same IDE ribbon can be slow.
 
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