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10 minutes to copy 1/2 gig from C:\ to C:\test. I have a Sony Viao PCG K15 laptop. After installing a new harddrive, Segate 160 gig the disk I/O is very slow. The disk is partitioned into 2 partitionns, 30 and 130 gig, NT format. This is after a CLEAN install of Windows XP, SP2, and NOTHING else loaded or installed. I use Windows Explorer to do the copy. In search of the problem, I loaded Windows 2000 on the same drive, and it takes 21 seconds to do the same copy of the same file. In desperation, I got another Segate 160 drive and it has the same speed as the first one. Any suggestions?
LittlerockZ.

have you checked at what speed it is operating, in device manager? (What UDMA mode)

Have you turned indexing and system restore off for both partitions?