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Memory usage maxes out 100% during file transfer, computer freezes
I'm really hoping someone can help me with this.
I've got 4 internal sata drives in my computer. A 80GB SSD, 1TB HDD, 2 TB HDD and 3TB HDD.
I recently moved overseas. For the move, I removed all the hard drives and the video card.
When I arrived, I reinstalled everything. Windows boots fine. All drives are accessible. All files on all drives are readable. It's when I started transferring files between drives is where the trouble began.
I think it's important to note that before I moved, everything was working fine. Now here's the problem:
I tried to transfer about 10GB of files from my 2TB to my 3TB. Transfer speed was fine in the beginning, starting at around 120mb/sec. But the speed quickly slows, goes to a crawl and eventually the transfer freezes, the computer freezes and the only thing I can do is a hard reset.
After a couple attempts, I launch Windows Task Manager to try to figure out what is going on.
Looking at the performance tab of Task Manager during the transfer, I can see that the Memory level steadily climbs until it reaches its maximum (8GB memory). It's at this point that the computer freezes.
If I transfer a lower amount over, for example 3GB of files, the memory level grows by 3GB. The transfer completes, but the memory level does not go down after the transfer has completed. Clicking on the resource monitor I can see that the memory is being held in the orange "Modified" portion of the RAM. It just sits there. It does not go back down. (see screen shots below)So if I tranfer 4GB to the 3TB drive, the memory usage will climb up to around 6.5GB cached. After the transfer, it remains at 6.5GB for the session and only goes down once the computer has been restarted.
I've tried switching sata cables - no change in behavior.
I've tried adding full permissions to all users in the hard drive properties - no change in behavior.
I've tried disabling AVG antivirus - no change in behavior.
Note: This ONLY happens when I transfer files to the 3TB drive. When I transfer files, for example, FROM the 3TB drive to another drive, the memory usage spikes a little, but goes down once the transfer is complete, which I believe is normal behavior.
Can anyone please help me?! I've looked all over the net trying to find an answer. I've found posters with similar problems, but no fixes.
System:
Dell Optiplex 980
Windows 7 Professional 64bit, Service Pack 1
Intel i7 860@ 2.8GHz