worked fine for months then slowed

[gannman]

I have used this for a few months to back up kids dvds and haven't had any probs until today. It's analyzing at 200kb/sec so what should take a minute or so is taking ten to twelve. If I wait through that then when I hit back up I'm looking at hours. When backing up I looked at my processes and anytime shrink is working, explorer comes on and takes up most of the cpu. Any idea what may have changed? lisa

[benbryant]

Hi gannman,

Sound as if you are having DMA problem. Please go to the link below, check and compare with your system, and fix it if needed:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44808

Regards

[gannman]

I went into that and deintalled, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted, and am still having same prob. primary device 0 and 1 say ultra dma mode 4. secondary device0 says pio even though i did the de and re install. device 1 says ultra dma mode 2

[rubber knob]

try a disk defrag

[benbryant]

Download the file from the link below and try the section "Re-enable DMA using Registry Editor". This registry fix to stop the system from reverting back to PIO mode:

DMA Reverts to PIO.pdf

Regards

[Chizzmo]

I'd try what Rubber Knos is saying. First right click on Internet explorer, delete cookies, delete all off line content, clean history. Then do a disk clean on your C:\ Drive and then reboot do a defrag. You should do this once a week to keep things running at optimum efficiency.