Win XP Slow/Hang Disk Operations


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I have built a new WinXP PC a couple of months ago. At times, I seem to be having some slow downs and hangup with certain programs, that seem to use the disk.

For example, I use Veritas Backup Express. When it backs up a drive of mine to another drive on the PC, it hangs on the backup diaglog box when trying to finalize writing the set. This only happens for backup file sets of a certain size (4Gig).

Another example : If I go into a drive or folder to set sharing for network access, it will say "setting up sharing permissions", and just clock and clock. If I cancel after a few seconds, it seems like it went ahead and did the sharing. It's just like it hangs at a certain point.

Other programs that are heaving disk intensive seem to be slow in certain operations. I use Thumbs+ 4.5 and it is slower to startup on my XP machine than my previous WIn2K box.

Below is my PC configuration. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks....

Epox 8KHA+

XP 1900 Processor (no overclocking)

1.28 Gig PC2100 DDR Ram

Xtstatcy Ti500 Nvidia Card

4 60 Gig hard drives

WinXp Pro

(No Via 4 in 1 drivers installed from web. Just stock XP)

Intel Pro 100 Nic card

SB Audigy Sound card

Maxtor ATA100 IDE Controller (used for CDROMs)

Generic 52x CDROM

Liteon 32x CDRW

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