Today I bought a new Seagate disk, the ST3160021A. I fitted it and installed it via Computer Management in adminstative tools. The hard disk formatted and was detected fine, but then I noticed how slow the hard disk was acting. And I mean REALLY slow. Someone sugested it might be on ATA33 mode, so I used Seagates ultility and made sure it was running on the fatest mode (ATA100, which it was already set to). I've basically got no futher in solveing this... I have no idea what could be wrong. I've connected 2 other hard disks the same exact way I've connected this one to my computer before and they were fine (allthough they were from other computers, with data already on them).
Does anyone have any ideas to what is causing my drive to run so slowly?
This is a screencap I took, after running a benchmark on both my drives, my main one and the new Seagate one. The top one is my main drive, which is working fine and the bottom if the Seagate: http://sircanealotshome.homestead.com/files/Harddisk.jpg
My specs are:
Atholn 1900+
512 megs of ram
ASUS A7A266-E
Windows XP with SP1
My main drive is a Maxtor 6L080J4
If anyone has any ideas, it'd be great.
Thanks
Does anyone have any ideas to what is causing my drive to run so slowly?
This is a screencap I took, after running a benchmark on both my drives, my main one and the new Seagate one. The top one is my main drive, which is working fine and the bottom if the Seagate: http://sircanealotshome.homestead.com/files/Harddisk.jpg
My specs are:
Atholn 1900+
512 megs of ram
ASUS A7A266-E
Windows XP with SP1
My main drive is a Maxtor 6L080J4
If anyone has any ideas, it'd be great.
Thanks