My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

I was hoping someone could provide a solution. I have a Alienware PC I upped to windows VISTA with 2 SATA hard drives in raid configuration. Those work fine, but I also have a Maxtor data drive on a Promise SATA150 TX2 controller that is just not working right. It recognizes the drive fine, but when I go to transfer files, it takes foreever like drive access is messed up. Of course there are no new drivers for the Promise controller, so I have no where to go there. I have an Abit AV8 motherboard. Any hints will be appreciated as I am about to kick my box.

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

What is your system RAM?
RAM and the CPU speed determine how fast your computer operates.

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

2GB. I doubt ram has much to do with it. Its just the one hard drive that is having issues. The 2 sata drives that run off the motherboard controller seem fine.

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

Are you sure that you have set one of the hard-drives as 'master' and the other as 'slave'?

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

you dont with sata drives do you? They all auto set as 0 and there are no jumpers on Sata drives.

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

I bought a new Dell XPS410 with Vista. It had the same problem with very slow disk access. After fifteen hours on the phone with Dell running numerous diagnostics, re-imaged the hard drive, etc. etc., all to no avail, we were both so frustrated that they told me to pack it up and ship it back for a full refund. I was disappointed, but I bought a desktop from another company and made sure it had XP Professional instead of Vista. Microsoft shouldn't have released a BETA version of an operating system. Shame on them! Get rid of Vista and your problems will be over!

Re: My Hard Drive is SLOW in vista
 

Make sure your data HDD is jumpered to be limited to 150/s as that is what the controller is. If you have a 300/s unjumpered you will have substancial issues.