Hi, I've been building a new system which has an SSD on SATA 1, and DVD on SATA 3. It was all going fine until I went to add in my 1TB drive on SATA 2.
This is a drive I have been using for about a year. I formatted it in XP and it had about 100GB of data on it. In this thread I asked about it originally and the expectation was that I'd plug it in and there it'd be.
It sort of was, it appeared as disk E, as expected, and my files were visible. Within moments a message popped up asking to restart, which I've done a lot with the system so thought nothing of it and let it do it. Upon restarting, the 'chkdsk' ran, I let it complete and got to Windows normally. But next restart it ran again and this didn't seem right, I certainly didn't want to have to run or skip this every startup.
At this point any time I tried to access drive E it popped up about a corrupted recycle bin (I've never had any Windows files on the drive afaik, it was just bulk storage). Anyhow, with the data on an external drive too I decided the quickest fix was probably just to format it and copy the files over again.
This worked, the system started without chkdsk running and I began copying. Initially it was speedy as expected, then it slowed and eventually stopped (actually it was running at between 3-8MB/S rate, but the estimated completion time disappeared). This was unacceptably slow of course and I know that the drive is perfectly fast itself from where I used it in the old system. Access to the drive was also painfully slow, it took ages to even load a music file from it and I gave up. This shows the issue isn't with the USB end at least.
Anyhow, I googled about this issue and it said about PIO and DMA. I followed some tutorials to ensure the drive was running on DMA, including updating the driver from Intel. It indicated all ports were running as ultra mode 6 DMA.
But still, the drive is hopelessly slow. I went to format it and assumed it had failed, but after leaving it for an hour or two I found it had done it when I got back. I'm trying to copy files to it again though and am getting a rate of 3.6MB/S now, so still very slow despite still indicating DMA mode on the device manager.
Any ideas what could be wrong here? I'm not sure if the drive was somehow damaged but it seems more likely it's some obscure SATA setting. The SSD is still fast but since that last format of drive E startup time has increased a lot, I'm not sure why that is either, there shouldn't be any system files on it.
(sorry for long and disjointed post, I tried everything I could and it's hard to remember exactly what I did and in what order!)
This is a drive I have been using for about a year. I formatted it in XP and it had about 100GB of data on it. In this thread I asked about it originally and the expectation was that I'd plug it in and there it'd be.
It sort of was, it appeared as disk E, as expected, and my files were visible. Within moments a message popped up asking to restart, which I've done a lot with the system so thought nothing of it and let it do it. Upon restarting, the 'chkdsk' ran, I let it complete and got to Windows normally. But next restart it ran again and this didn't seem right, I certainly didn't want to have to run or skip this every startup.
At this point any time I tried to access drive E it popped up about a corrupted recycle bin (I've never had any Windows files on the drive afaik, it was just bulk storage). Anyhow, with the data on an external drive too I decided the quickest fix was probably just to format it and copy the files over again.
This worked, the system started without chkdsk running and I began copying. Initially it was speedy as expected, then it slowed and eventually stopped (actually it was running at between 3-8MB/S rate, but the estimated completion time disappeared). This was unacceptably slow of course and I know that the drive is perfectly fast itself from where I used it in the old system. Access to the drive was also painfully slow, it took ages to even load a music file from it and I gave up. This shows the issue isn't with the USB end at least.
Anyhow, I googled about this issue and it said about PIO and DMA. I followed some tutorials to ensure the drive was running on DMA, including updating the driver from Intel. It indicated all ports were running as ultra mode 6 DMA.
But still, the drive is hopelessly slow. I went to format it and assumed it had failed, but after leaving it for an hour or two I found it had done it when I got back. I'm trying to copy files to it again though and am getting a rate of 3.6MB/S now, so still very slow despite still indicating DMA mode on the device manager.
Any ideas what could be wrong here? I'm not sure if the drive was somehow damaged but it seems more likely it's some obscure SATA setting. The SSD is still fast but since that last format of drive E startup time has increased a lot, I'm not sure why that is either, there shouldn't be any system files on it.
(sorry for long and disjointed post, I tried everything I could and it's hard to remember exactly what I did and in what order!)
