Defragging could not have made a significant improvement. You should first look to 
see if your controller has fallen back to one of the PIO modes rather than DMA. Open 
the device manager and look at the primary ide channel properties.







On Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 4:06 am, Deb wrote:

>I hope someone out there knows what is causing this problem.

>When I try to copy a file or folder, either to another folder on the same drive 
or, 

>to or from my external drive, it takes forever and if I try to cancel the copying 

>my computer locks up and I have to reboot. 

>This is driving me mad, i've defragged all the drives, done all my clean up programs 

>i.e anti-virus (no viruses), Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Terminator, AdAware 

>SE Personal, Windows Advanced Care etc. etc. my computer is clean of spyware, malware, 

>trojans etc.

>This problem has been happening for about a month now, i've tried a system restore, 

>that didn't help...

>Can someone please help before I take the drastic action to reformat and reinstall 

>XP Home.
 

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