External Hard drive slow

[kart kid]

I just installed an 250 gig ext hard drive 2.0 usb
and reformatted it to ntsc.

It seemes way to slow as it takes 9 min to transfer 469 mb
I am using a pent 4 2.6 with 1 gig ram on xp pro

The ext drive is from acomdata. to movie from my internal
drive to it way to long aprox 70 min...

It is connected to a 2.0 port not to a hub...

Any help would be great

Thanks Marty

[Peter M]

That'll be about 900 KBytes/s, exactly the speed you'd get on USB 1.1.

Check whether you actually ARE running USB 2.0 "high speed" mode. Open Device Manager, choose "devices by connection" view, and then unfold all USB to see whether the drive attaches to an "enhanced" controller or not. If it's on a "universal" or "open" USB controller, then it's running USB 1.x.

[zybch]

If you've only got the ports running at USB1 speed, you need to install Windows XP Service Pack 1 or 2.
This will enable your ports to run as USB2 ones.
I'd go for SP2, its got quite a few improvements over SP1 like a better firewall and an additional 9 months of bug fixes and patches :) Good old Microsoft.

[kart kid]

I am running sp2 but I got a prompt that it is not hooked to a high speed port
and that their none avaiable ????

What can I do as I could not see how to find where to look for them or is their
a setting that I missed???

Thanks again

[Midknyte]

are you sure you have USB2.0 ports? what is the make and model of your motherboard?

like Peter said, it would show "enhanced" USB ports in the device manager if they were USB 2.0

[kart kid]

It is a ASUS p5s800
In device manager it has standard enhanced port
windows now prompts me when I change ports that
are no high speed usb host controller installed
How do I get a high speed controller is this a hardware upgrade
or software upgrade???

I thought USB 2.0 was high speed?

[BipolarBill]

Try these tips:

http://tinyurl.com/4uqo

[zybch]

It is a ASUS p5s800
In device manager it has standard enhanced port
windows now prompts me when I change ports that
are no high speed usb host controller installed
How do I get a high speed controller is this a hardware upgrade
or software upgrade???

I thought USB 2.0 was high speed?

They stuffed up with the speed thing. Full Speed is slower than High Speed as far as the USB standards go, which is pretty stupid.

Anyway, you might want to remove all the entries under USB in the device manager, reboot and they will be detected again and if any are USB2 ports they'll be identified properly.
You may also want to enter the BIOS when your PC boots and make sure that the ports aqre set to function as USB2.0 ports, not 1.0. Its probably in the Integrated Peripherals section but some boards have the setting elsewhere.

Your board should certainly have USB2 though, 8 sockets actually.

[kart kid]

Hello Again,
I have tryed going into the bios and
it is set for USB 2.0 high speed

This is the only thing I have pluged into any USB port
I just retryed to transfer a file 4.3 gig and it took 75 min.

I think I am missing something somewhere as the rest of the
machine works awsome
I have a 160 gig HD and a 250 gig HD Internal maxtors that have 16meg csh
if it makes any difference!!

[BipolarBill]

Did you read those tips? Did you apply USBDetect? I can't do it for you and you must at least give us feedback.

[kart kid]

Did you read those tips? Did you apply USBDetect? I can't do it for you and you must at least give us feedback.

Thanks so much Bill It was confusing as I was told that Per usbman that it was from my updates from SP2 but i tried it with no results and what was stumping
me was that I tried the hard drive on two other units I have with the same results.

So I thought that it was the unit itself but when I used a friends computer
It worked fine.....

Sad to say It was as easy as unstalling all USB connections and rebooting it with the unit hooked up and vola!!!

Thanks a Million to all And Have HAPPY NEW YEAR and A GOOD 2006!!!

Marty

[Mugatu]

Hi guys, I am having a similar problem with my external hdd. I get decent transfer speeds to my external drive (a 1.4G file takes 90 secs.) but I get unbelievably slow transfer speeds from the external drive to my internal. I have a VIA Enhanced controller and my system specs are:

Windows XP SP2
AMD athlon 3000+
1gb ram
K8T Neo mobo
80gb seagate ide hdd
250gb comstar (samsung) external drive

Thanks for any info you can provide.

[BipolarBill]

Please start your own thread, Mugatu. Include this:

Open System Information (MSINFO32.EXE) and navigate to Hardware Resources > IRQs. Click anywhere in the right pane and then press CTRL-A and then CTRL-C. You have copied that data to the clipboard. Paste that data in a reply here.

[Mugatu]

Not sure if you meant a reply in this thread but I'll post the data here anyway:

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 10 RAID Controller OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 16 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT OK
IRQ 16 Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC OK
IRQ 17 Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM) OK
IRQ 18 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller OK

[BipolarBill]

Actually, I meant for you to start your own thread. I thought I said that...

Open Device Manager and click View > Devices by Connection. Trace down the ACPI/PCI branch to the device. See if it is mounted under the "Enhanced" USB controller. If it is, it's working as USB 2.0.

[hurkatm]

Dear Members,
I have Toshiba 500GB hard drive, It was working very good and fast even when only 200 MB of space was free out of 500GB. But I connected it to my friends Laptop installed with Pyrated Windows XP professional. Now this HDD is not working properly with my Laptop. It is very very slow, cannot access or delet two files( after plug in everytime I can either read or delet file only once that to not always). I have scanned it with Norten360, Kaspery, Avast all results are clear.
I tried it with other Pyrated XP Prof system but still no improvement.
I have very very important data plz help me to extract the data.

[hurkatm]

Dear Members,
I have gone through all the posts, thanks for the reply.
I am also facing problem with my TOSHIBA External HD.
My Hard disk is of 500GB and was working very good on my laptop installed with Windows Vista(Licenced)and also with Windows7(Not Licenced). but recently I used it on another Laptop having Windows XP Prof(not licenced). after that when I connected on my original system it started malfunctioning. It got very very slow and also cannot access the data.
every time I plug it it some time give access to some data but not always and also I not delet files.
Strange is I have scanned it with Norton 360, Avast and ESETNOD32, even they could not scan it completly, they showed some virus and malwares and were successfully removed. but still I cannot access the data properly and its very very slow.
Plz help me out as the data is very very important and I have to recovery it some how.

[Train]

hurkatm
Since those were Pyrated legally we can not help you. But I suggest you DBAN http://www.dban.org/ the drive and do a clean install of a legal OS. Yes, they do attach a lot of nasties to those non licensed torents and you see what happens. Not good!

AUP
You will not violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.
http://www.internet.com/Internetcom/Door/41221

[BipolarBill]

There is no doubt more malware on this external drive. Anyone that has a pirated version of XP has more problems than just the OS! These PCs are a ticking time bombs and you should NEVER connect your drive to one.

Your best bet is to find a known CLEAN PC (even cleaner than your own) and use antivirus and malware scanners on that PC. If you cannot do this, do as Train suggests. Get what you can off of the drive and then format it and start over.

You must understand that when someone runs a pirated version of Windows, they can never get all of the security updates and service packs. Consequently, the PC cannot be secured - period. Also understand that anyone who is too cheap to pay $100 for Windows is also too cheap to pay for a good antivirus. They are also more likely to get other "free" things that are contaminated. Essentially, they are people who are ignorant of PC safety and security. Keep your distance from such people. They are trouble.

Now, having said that, the drive may also be damaged or "dirty". Scan that drive for errors with CHKDSK.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265