slow transfer speed between 2 internal sata HD's

[Magic_x_uk]

hi, just rebuilt a pc of mine. Put in 3 SATA HD's

1 with OS on (raptor 74GB)

1 samsung 2TB
1 WD 1TB

All connected to motherboard with Sata. Trying to copy stuff over from 1tb to the 2tb and transfer speed around 31mb/s

Am I missing something here.
Everything is ok in device manager, things are updated (as far as I am aware)

surely they should transfer quicker than this. I need to transfer around three quarters of the 1tb hard drive. At this speed I will be here till Christmas.


Thanks for any help you can give,

 

[anything I don't mind]

Did you set the bios options to ahci and set the speed to 3gbps or 6 if your mb and drives support it ?

Sometimes the drives have jumper settings to change from 1.5 to 3 and 3 to 6, but modern drives should just work on 6 and 3 without any changes.

Also install the motherboard chipset and sata controller drivers from the manufacture. Windows 7 comes with generic drivers, although they work, might be best to look for specific drivers for your components.

between my sata 3gbps drives I can get over 100mbyte second and from one specific drive to another one i can get 120mbyte.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Not sure about that, 1 of the HD's was in a previous rig, the 2nd, the 2TB is brand new

This is my mobo ASRock AliveXfire-eSATA2

I shall check bios when I get home in a bit & see if there is that option

Thanks

 

[Magic_x_uk]

okay in BIOS I have the following.

IDE Configuration:
SATA operation mode: non-RAID, RAID or AHCI

was set to non-Raid was booting and working fine.


set it to AHCI would not boot. windows wanted to do a 'repair'


am i missing something?

thank you



Update, seems changing it from non-raid to AHCI was not a good idea guys. will not boot into windows anymore, keeps asking if i want to repair, choose repair and got a unable to repair screen 3 times.

So now re-installing the OS.

GRRRRRRr

 

[Crowort]

It should boot if you change it back to IDE mode. You can't just change to AHCI without telling windows that before hand. There is a fairly simple registry fix you can apply before changing to make it work. MS even offer a wizard to do it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

Since you have started reinstalling already likely not going to make a difference now.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

It should boot if you change it back to IDE mode. You can't just change to AHCI without telling windows that before hand. There is a fairly simple registry fix you can apply before changing to make it work. MS even offer a wizard to do it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

Since you have started reinstalling already likely not going to make a difference now.

yeah just found that info on the net oh well, i had only just installed the new OS and done windows updates, so nothing really lost except couple of hours.

here was me thinking I could just change it in the BIOS, but alas it did some permanent damage to the OS.