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Almost an hour to extract a 4g file.

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My parents computer is crap. I want mine back!

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what kind of processor?

I had something like that a few months ago. Turned out the IDE drivers were corrupt, severely limiting speed of transfer from one file to another.

I would like to say it's an AMD 2300. But I am totally unsure.

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Install a Linux partition. I've never seen "unrar" take that long.

you can tell what it is by going to control panel and hitting system, either way thats to long.

AMD Athlon(tm)XP 2600+
2.08 GHz

Sorry I was way off.

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But the PC specs are not the issue.

I have 3 P4's 1.7's.... none ever take that long.

Mind you this is the same computer that freezes all of the time (not so much lately...but yeah. If it matters.

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- Free up disk space
- Defrag the hard disk(s)
- Pause your Torrent client if you're running one
- Extract from one physical drive to another if you can

I'll move this to the Computer Help forum

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check to see if anything is running in the background spiking your CPU usage to 100% while you idle

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i have the same problem with a an External Seagate Freeagent (320gb) drive i got as few months ago. Downloaded a dvdrip last week via grabit straight to it and the unrar took something stupid like an hour and a half?!? Wtf?

i'm putting it down to my pc being old and shitty and not even running usb2 (i would expect data transfers not to be that quick but wouldnt have thought unrarring stuff would too). Would the unrar be quicker if winrar was on the same drive?

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On double A's

Thanks for the advice/suggestions.

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Originally posted by Neversoft
- Free up disk space
- Defrag the hard disk(s)

- Extract from one physical drive to another if you can

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Originally posted by Dwaggy
Thats alot of words for someone that sells DVDs out of the back of a truck

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Fuck with it for hours, trying random board suggestions until it is just slightly better, then re-install XP.

sorry but if it's not usb 2.0 then you will never make much of a difference whatever you do. I'd just bin it and biuld another - you get change outa £150 for dual core.

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Originally posted by Munson
Fuck with it for hours, trying random board suggestions until it is just slightly better, then re-install XP.

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If there is more than one hard drive, check the boot sequence in BIOS. I've known a PC to try and boot from a data drive and when that failed continue to boot from a system drive but with disastrous consequences.

If you are using Winrar ,always right click the rar file and click Extract here ,do not drag and drop the file into a desired folder from an archive ,it copies the file first to a temporary directory, and only then to desired destination. But if you click Extract Here ,it extracts the file directly within the folder ,with no moving about ,saving a ton of time.

I always choose "Extract Here'.

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