I have absolutely no idea why it's having problems. Your PC clearly has the ability to transfer faster. Since your PC is a "refurbished PC" (or is it?), something might've gone wrong when they did it.
Last edited by Richardc269; 17 Feb 2012 at 14:51. Reason: Edited
I ordered it from Dell.com
It should be brand new. I just waited about 3 minutes and it finally stopped hanging on 5 seconds remaining and ended up copying it.
This is frustrating. Check this out. This might have some answers as to why it might be acting up.
This is my Windows Experience Index score:
Fat32 is an OK format for flash drives and SD cards. I noticed that the transfer is faster with Fat32 than with NTFS (on flash drives).
I have a pretty new XPS 8300 too and do not have this problem. I suspect it is not a hardware problem but something in Win7 is holding it up. Check what processes are running and take time during the data transfer.
Okay I'm confused now. I just copied a 100 MB file to my SD card and it only took 14 seconds. I converted it back to FAT32 and it was transferring at 7.5 MB/s.
Maybe it's not slow and I'm just stupid when it comes to computers.
The NTFS thing is still bothering me though. It transfers so fast but gets stuck with 5 seconds left. Weird.
100mb files shouldn't take a whole minute. Your transfering is slow, for some reason.
Edit: I forgot to ask, though this is probably not the problem: Are all of your drivers installed in "System" in the Control Panel?
Last edited by Richardc269; 17 Feb 2012 at 16:08. Reason: Edited.
Go to the Control Panel in the Start Menu, and go to "System" in the list.
Yeah, I did pick a really slow stick out of the big box for the initial test.
But then I repeated the operation on a fast stick and that took only 4 sec per 100MB. So here you have a range of from - to. Both sticks are formatted Fat32.
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