terribly slow FAT/32 writing speed in vista

james.miller · 26 Jun 2007 at 15:51

ok this one is bugging me and i've not found a solution yet. whenever witing to a fat/32 formatted memory card (for my phone, my mp3 player....whatever) vista is absolutely dreadful. I can read from the cards at pretty much what the cards are rated for but when it comes to writing, im lucky if it breaks 1mb/sec. obviously quite annoying when you want to load your mp3 player with music - it takes a fair while at 4-5 seconds per song.

Does anybody know why this is happening and if there's any way around it?

Energize · 26 Jun 2007 at 16:16

Are you sure the card supports speeds faster than that? Cheap ones are only about 2MB/s. Also if a device is usb 1.1, then it can only transfer at 1.4MB/s.

james.miller · 26 Jun 2007 at 16:19

no its also writing directly to the memory card with a usb2 card reader, and it's much faster in xp :confused:

durbs · 26 Jun 2007 at 16:37

It'll probably be the Vista drivers for your card reader. I have the same issue with USB 2.0 keys/HDD's in Vista due to duff NForce chipset drivers, they write at super slow speed but work fine if i boot into XP on the same machine.

marc2003 · 26 Jun 2007 at 17:30

writing to my fat32 mp3 (hard drive based admittedly) player is just the same in vista as it was in xp - about4-5mb a second which sucks (my old player was about twice as fast).

i'll go with the above - driver problems...