Why is my drive so slow:(

Messiah Khan · 20 May 2006 at 15:01

Ive just installed HDtach, and ran tests on my drives. All my drives are fine except my program drive which has this terrible result;

Any idea why? Its connected to the Nvidia SATA controller on my MSI K8N.

Messiah Khan · 20 May 2006 at 15:10

All the drivers are fine. The other drives connected to the exact same controller are perfectly fine. Ive noticed though that the CPU utilization is very high when im running the test on that drive. Any idea what could cause this?

Messiah Khan · 20 May 2006 at 15:28

Never mind, ive fixed it now. The drive was stuck in PIO mode for some reason. I wonder how long its been like that, lol. Anyway, this is whats its like now;

Messiah Khan · 20 May 2006 at 21:23

Go into Control panel>Administrative tools>Computer management>Device manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double click on the controller the drive is attatched to, go to the Primary or secondary channel tab depending on which your drive is attatched to. Select the correct transfer mode from the dropdown box(Choose the highest it will let you.)

Edit; What drive is it? What is the SMART status of it saying?(Check in something like speedfan)

Messiah Khan · 21 May 2006 at 01:13

Ouch, thats on a Raptor as well isn't it?