extension15
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OK Robo,..... unless you were moving very large files of 100MB's+ in size, due the the file buffer design within XP Areas to look
Firstly did this problem start in the last few days?, if yes, have you installed any apps that are taking excessive CPU clock cycles (e.g. at the cost of the File System), every app gets a share of CPU clock time some get more priority than others dependant on this prioritisation, you can check this in Taskmanger, in typical system System Idle Process would be the highest at 99% even with office type apps running (only games tend to tax modern PC's), if you see svchost.exe running at high number this could possibly suggest the presence of a trojan or virus, or you may see a badly written app hogging CPU cycles effecting your file transfers
Where are you transferring from/to? if you have one physical disc split in to multiple partitions you are still using the same read/write heads, small files can be managed by the drive buffers, and larger by the File System buffering (NTFS is more efficient than FAT32), so moving very large files would drag performance down extra memory may not yield much benefit as the bottleneck is the drive, the cure is a second hard drive, the bottleneck moves elsewhere but might not be noticeable
You may have a 100GB of free space reported, but is it contiguous?, Windows is not particularly good at disc space management, so periodically running a defrag app can improve performance on drives as it reorders disc space into contiguous files that will load a lot faster thereafter
The above quotes from your post are the most relevant..
Defrag is performed on a weekly basis/Window Wash daily.
The files in question are mp3 or FLAC, the latter are converted to mp3 after being decoded.
These files are downloaded (via Torrent) onto the D: partition, if required FLAC/windows audio are converted to mp3 (file sizes 3MB-60MB, up to 1GB in total (or more at times)).
From here they are transferred onto a external HD.
All formats are NTFS.
AVG & Zone Alarms are running all the time.
It does appear that when downloading and performing file conversions that problems occur.
And as you have mentioned, there appears to be a bottle neck occuring.
However yesterday in sheer desperation, I performed a FULL error check (inc auto repair) on the C: Drive..........It appears to have cured the problem (This is the 2nd time I've done this this year).
So is the HD becoming corrupted (occasionally)?
The PC is switched on/off about 32 times a week.