What is going on - 5 minutes to copy 300MB file???

I have a external hard drive on my USB2 port.

I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".

Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
did it in a few seconds.

I have read a few complaints about Vista slow copying but this is
crazy.

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"Mary" <> wrote in message
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>I have a external hard drive on my USB2 port.
>
> I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
> minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".
>
> Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
> up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
> did it in a few seconds.
>
> I have read a few complaints about Vista slow copying but this is
> crazy.
>
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>

Are you up to date on patches? At least one patch issued through Windows
Update addressed this issue and made significant improvements for most
users.

> I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
> minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".
>
> Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
> up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
> did it in a few seconds.

Count yourself lucky it only took 2 minutes to calculate how long it
will take. Slow file transfer is very much an issue with Vista. Get
used to it.

Also, check to make sure you are not running media player. Dropping
Windows Media Player dramatically sped up my USB drive transfers -
seems the wonderful WMP was scanning the drive for DRM issues which
slowed down everything else.

Yes, I do have that patch.

I also found a copy of the MS White Paper about Vista SP1 and this
seems to be one of the issues that will be addressed.

I HOPE SO.

I can't believe Microsoft were not aware of this when they released
Vista. What made them let Vista loose with an issue like this?



On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:06:23 -0600, "PvdG42" <>
wrote:

>"Mary" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>>I have a external hard drive on my USB2 port.
>>
>> I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
>> minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".
>>
>> Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
>> up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
>> did it in a few seconds.
>>
>> I have read a few complaints about Vista slow copying but this is
>> crazy.
>>
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>>
>
>Are you up to date on patches? At least one patch issued through Windows
>Update addressed this issue and made significant improvements for most
>users.


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Media Player was definitely off.


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:21:31 -0800 (PST), theclyde
<> wrote:

>> I copied a 300MB file and it took over 5 minutes - plus another 2
>> minutes just "Calculating how long it will take".
>>
>> Have I got something set up wrong or is this just Vista??? I hooked it
>> up to my XP Pro laptop to check it wasn't the external drive and it
>> did it in a few seconds.
>
>Count yourself lucky it only took 2 minutes to calculate how long it
>will take. Slow file transfer is very much an issue with Vista. Get
>used to it.
>
>Also, check to make sure you are not running media player. Dropping
>Windows Media Player dramatically sped up my USB drive transfers -
>seems the wonderful WMP was scanning the drive for DRM issues which
>slowed down everything else.


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Updates do not fix the problem.
Vista is so fundamentally flawed that only a complete rewrite can help.
Saturday, while my 84 year old mother watched, I copied a 280mb file from a
CD to a Vista laptop hard-drive.
This also took about 4-5 minutes. That is longer than it took to create the
CD on an older XP laptop with a slower CD drive.
Even my 84 year old mother wondered what was wrong with the computer.
"Its Vista" is all I could say, as in, "Its Chinatown."
I wish she had said, "Wow!"

"flambe" <> wrote in message
news:vgg3j.2974$. ..
> Updates do not fix the problem.
> Vista is so fundamentally flawed that only a complete rewrite can help.
> Saturday, while my 84 year old mother watched, I copied a 280mb file from
> a CD to a Vista laptop hard-drive.
> This also took about 4-5 minutes. That is longer than it took to create
> the CD on an older XP laptop with a slower CD drive.
> Even my 84 year old mother wondered what was wrong with the computer.
> "Its Vista" is all I could say, as in, "Its Chinatown."
> I wish she had said, "Wow!"

Did yu have your 84 year old mother watch so she could verify the time for
you? She should be playing cards or knitting, not dealing with Vista! That
almost borders on abuse!!!!!


>

So does Vista taking 5 minutes to copy 300MB!!!


>Did yu have your 84 year old mother watch so she could verify the time for
>you? She should be playing cards or knitting, not dealing with Vista! That
>almost borders on abuse!!!!!

>
>"flambe" <> wrote in message
>news:vgg3j.2974$ ...
>> Updates do not fix the problem.
>> Vista is so fundamentally flawed that only a complete rewrite can help.
>> Saturday, while my 84 year old mother watched, I copied a 280mb file from
>> a CD to a Vista laptop hard-drive.
>> This also took about 4-5 minutes. That is longer than it took to create
>> the CD on an older XP laptop with a slower CD drive.
>> Even my 84 year old mother wondered what was wrong with the computer.
>> "Its Vista" is all I could say, as in, "Its Chinatown."
>> I wish she had said, "Wow!"



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"Mary" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Yes, I do have that patch.
>
> I also found a copy of the MS White Paper about Vista SP1 and this
> seems to be one of the issues that will be addressed.
>
> I HOPE SO.
>
> I can't believe Microsoft were not aware of this when they released
> Vista. What made them let Vista loose with an issue like this?

....financial gain

Tranfers between internal HDDs take very little time with Vista. I can
transfer folders of lossless music files, sometimes over 1 gb in size, in
less than 2 mins.