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Slow external hard drive after upgrade Windows 7!

Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by Jonez001, Sep 5, 2010.

  1. Jonez001

    Jonez001 Well-Known Member

    Hi,

    Since I upgraded my pc to Windows 7 no problems appeared. No driver issues and no registery errors. Their was one, but it was solved by a software update.

    But their is one problem that keeps bugging me. I placed some files and things on my external hard drive and my pc can still read it in Windows 7 but it is damn slow. Deleting more then 5 files at once is a problem and takes ages. And the files are old fonts... each file around 200kB! And that makes 900kB which was removed in Windows XP (I never installed Vista) in 0.1 second!
    And if the hard drive is connected the pc slows down....

    I had this problem never before in Windows XP....
    How to solve this? And please fast because I need those files and copying them one by one will take ages...

    I have installed Windows 7 clean AND installed the latest driver of the external drive.
    Windows 7 Enterprise and the external hard drive is a Packard Bell Carbon of 1TB!

    More info needed? Just ask!
     
  2. msg2009

    msg2009 Romulations sexiest member

    I had a similar(ish) problem: http://forum.romulation.net/index.php?topic=46326.msg1014777#msg1014777
    Seems windows 7 doesn't like some fonts.
     
  3. Jonez001

    Jonez001 Well-Known Member

    Ok, I will try that but how can put files on my hard drive in the XP mode and the get them in the window 7 mode?
     
  4. Tomoka

    Tomoka Well-Known Member

    hmmm....just use a VM, which i believe XP mode is -.-" then just copy them from the virtual XP, to windows 7...
     
  5. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    As simple as that.

    Or you can use XP mode to manage your HDD..
     
  6. Tomoka

    Tomoka Well-Known Member

    and also...i believe Windows XP mode is only available for ultimate...
     
  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    professional has it as well.
     
  8. Tomoka

    Tomoka Well-Known Member

    hmmm...that's interesting...i never knew that -.-"
     
  9. Jonez001

    Jonez001 Well-Known Member

    But has somebody an idea to install that xp thingy on enterprise or a solution to my problem?
     
  10. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
     
  11. garychencool

    garychencool Well-Known Member

    Hey, can't you just VMWare XP?
     
  12. Jonez001

    Jonez001 Well-Known Member

    Link plz!
    PS: I HAVE NO CD OF WINDOWS XP
     
  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    VMWare is commercial software, you wont get a link on here.
     
  14. Jonez001

    Jonez001 Well-Known Member

    Oh, so GOOGLE?
     
  15. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    You got it.
     
  16. Tomoka

    Tomoka Well-Known Member

    or demonoid, it's go invitation codes here somewhere >:D