File transfer

[Birdulike]

Hi, Its taken about 10 minutes to send a file (4.9Gb) from My Doc's to an external drive, now its never been as slow. but even small files are takeing longer than usual! What could be happening?

 

[CyberZeus]

Have you tried to defrag your external drive?

 

[Birdulike]

I'll give it a try

=================update=================
Defragging now, this will take some time... 465Gb and 241Gb is filled I will report back

 

[Birdulike]

Its consolidating...What that then

 

[CyberZeus]

Try Disk Defrag - Fast and Safe Defragmenter for Your Disks it's free and I use it to defrag my disks.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Do you have the proper chipset drivers loaded for your motherboard and/or the USB ports?

 

[Birdulike]

Day 2, and I've spotted in device manager that two of my PCI to USB host controllers have a yellow triangle beside them! Should I unistall these 2 and reboot?

 

[Orbital Shark]

Day 2, and I've spotted in device manager that two of my PCI to USB host controllers have a yellow triangle beside them! Should I unistall these 2 and reboot?

That would be the best bet. Also what make is your motherboard?

You can use CPUZ to determine your make/model

 

[Birdulike]

Good Morning Orbital,
ASUS® CROSSHAIR II FORMULA: SATA II, 3 x PCI-Ex, 2 x PCI
I will reboot now!

 

[Orbital Shark]

If that doesn't work you might want to try the following...

nVidia nForce 780a

32Bit
NVIDIA DRIVERS 15.49 WHQL

64Bit
NVIDIA DRIVERS 15.49 WHQL

 

[Birdulike]

Many thanks for your good advice and I'm glad to report that unistalling the host contollers and rebooting did the trick

 

[Orbital Shark]

And the good news keeps rolling

Glad we could help