Slow external hard drive after upgrade Windows 7!

Jonez001OP5 Sep 2010 · 13:03 UTC

Hi,Since I upgraded my pc to Windows 7 no problems appeared. No driver issues and no registery errors. Their was one, but it was solved by a software update.But their is one problem that keeps bugging me. I placed some files and things on my external hard drive and my pc can still read it in Windows 7 but it is damn slow. Deleting more then 5 files at once is a problem and takes ages. And the files are old fonts... each file around 200kB! And that makes 900kB which was removed in Windows XP (I never installed Vista) in 0.1 second!
And if the hard drive is connected the pc slows down....I had this problem never before in Windows XP....
How to solve this? And please fast because I need those files and copying them one by one will take ages...I have installed Windows 7 clean AND installed the latest driver of the external drive.
Windows 7 Enterprise and the external hard drive is a Packard Bell Carbon of 1TB!More info needed? Just ask!

msg20095 Sep 2010 · 13:09 UTC

I had a similar(ish) problem: http://forum.romulation.net/index.php?topic=46326.msg1014777#msg1014777
Seems windows 7 doesn't like some fonts.

Jonez001OP5 Sep 2010 · 13:14 UTC

Ok, I will try that but how can put files on my hard drive in the XP mode and the get them in the window 7 mode?

Tomoka5 Sep 2010 · 13:23 UTC

hmmm....just use a VM, which i believe XP mode is -.-" then just copy them from the virtual XP, to windows 7...

yoshi28895 Sep 2010 · 14:19 UTC

Replying to #4

As simple as that.Or you can use XP mode to manage your HDD..

Tomoka5 Sep 2010 · 14:38 UTC

Replying to #5

and also...i believe Windows XP mode is only available for ultimate...