Transferring Files from NTFS to HFS+ Through MacDrive

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I need to transfer large number of files (<4GB ea., totaling nearly 1TB) from an NTFS drive to an HFS+ drive. Things worked magnificently yesterday, and I don't know what happened. I used to get speeds faster than 1GB/min. Now, I get 100MB/min. How can I remedy this?

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The HFS+ drive is external USB. Disconnecting and reconnecting brought back the original speed, for a short while. Mid-transfer of 4.6GB, it started to choke and dropped down to the 100MB/min throughput.

Is there some service I should enable or disable? I have everything related to file transfers set to automatic along with almost everything else. A bit is on manual, and I have started the ones I think may be relevant. I'm baffled.

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Restart computer? Could just be something in the background taking CPU load.

Thus far, I have restarted, reinstalled the USB drivers, and tried different USB ports. Also, explorer is the CPU hog when this happens.

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It works fine when I transfer less than, say, 1GB at a time. As soon as I try to transfer more, these problems crop-up and do not go away until I restart.

I tried increasing the page file size to 4GB. I'm about to increase the number of page table entries. I have no idea what is wrong or how to fix it.

Filling up a 1TB drive 1GB at a time is retarded.

edit: UGH. Even small transfers eventually get cause this problem!!!! This is why I bought Apple, damnit, to get away from this.

edit2: file transfers cause explorer to consume 100% cpu. this is a primary symptom.

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