Quick hard drive question

[andym]

I have 3 drives in my computer at the moment:
Windows/main drive 320gb
The cupboard (yes that's what I called it) 2tb
The Spare 400gb

I have about 150gb on Windows (primary download drive), about 1tb in The Cupboard and nothing in the spare....

After I copied all the files from the dodgy laptop drive I was sorting something seems to have messed up somewhere along the lines....

Motherboard is SATA 3, previously I could transfer files from C to D quickly (20gb in about 5-10 minutes roughly), but since saving the laptop files it now takes about 80-90 minutes to transfer 1gb.

I've had the whole computer apart, reconnected all the leads properly and done everything I can think of, but nothing is bringing that speed back

Anyone got any ideas....

[Andy_Pagin]

Assuming you're using Windows, usual stuff, defrag, chkdsk or whatever its called nowadays. Does Windows still have that 'fast search indexing' thingy?, that might bugger up performance.

Personally I'd dump Windows for Linux, you'll never have performance or file system problems again, they're a Microsoft-only feature.
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[nick_houghton]

did you do anything with BIOS to make the laptop drive work?

Maybe it's running the SATA ports ATA mode?

Other immediate thought is your drives are plugged into slower sata 1 or 2 ports but most disks can operate within the confines of 300mbps unless their 15000rpm or WD Raptors

If you were talking about free space in the OP then move the page file to the fastest drive with the most free space.
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[andym]

Just wanted to post a quick reply here, I don't know how to add extra bits to the thread title, but I found a solution to my problem.

I decided to find something to fix it after I waited almost an hour to burn a DVD last night and it was managing 1.1x write speed.

I've just done a few tests and Windows loads faster, I can finally play games again, and I've transferred a file or two from C: to D: (almost 4gb in less than a minute).

After trying a few BIOS tweaks there was no improvement, so the solution I found pointed to a registry problem

Anyway, if anyone is interested (or has the same problem), this is an option to try at your own risk....

from: https://www.pommepause.com/blog/2009/11/fix-a-suddenly-very-slow-sata-hard-drive-problem/