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External drive very slow copying data to D:

Last answer on Aug 29, 2009 4:03:07 pm BST wakantanka, on Jun 3, 2009 12:51:05 pm BST 
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Hello,
My external drive is extremely slow copying music and data to my D: drive, the format of both the drives is ntfs, and my anti virus is not scanning, when i drag and drop from one to the other the copying is extremely slow.
Please not too technical thanks

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vse886, on Jun 3, 2009 2:21:43 pm BST

You should try using the external HDD on another pc and see if it does the same thing! May be it's because of some viruses!

   
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 p.p.panik, on Aug 29, 2009 4:03:07 pm BST

I also had problems with copying speed from an external USB drive to my internal one. But the problem only appeard for my movie folder on that disk, which seemed a bit odd to me and found a bit weird soloution to it:
I checked the information for the movie folder (apple+i) and compared them to the ones of a 'no problem' folder. For some reason the 'sharing & permission' section of my movie folder had two entries for me on saying 'read & write' and the other saying 'custom' above it.
I changed 'custom' to 'read & write' and everything went back to normal.

I now have reading and writing speed of 20 MB/sec. Before had 500kb/sec.
Don't now if this works for you, but it might be worth checking.

   
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