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Why so long to delete files from external HDD?
I'm doing some work on my brother in law's laptop. I used his external HDD to create a system image which worked fine. I also see backups from computers he doesn't even have anymore that are old, some from as far back as 2003. Anyway, when I selecet them and hit delete, it takes 20 minutes or more to delete these old backups. Why does it take so long? I turned off moving the files to the recycle bin so it should be just a matter of the OS marking that space available, right?
For the most part the files are deleted bam, bam, bam but every once in awhile it will pause on deletion of a single file for a minute or more. There are no error messages so I don't believe these pauses are due to read errors.
Any suggestions on speeding up things?