- 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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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?
quote:Originally posted by Neversoft - Free up disk space
- Defrag the hard disk(s)
- Extract from one physical drive to another if you can
all great suggestions, but the last one only helps if its on a different IDE chain. if they're master/slave on the same cable, it won't make a lot of difference.
the best set up (using purely IDE) is to have an HDD as master on each cable and a DVD-RW as slave. copying between drives is quicker, and burning on the opposite drive is quicker.
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quote:Originally posted by Dwaggy Thats alot of words for someone that sells DVDs out of the back of a truck
quote:Originally posted by Avenue_1 v3.0b Read zoidys comment for clarification.
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.
quote:Originally posted by Munson Fuck with it for hours, trying random board suggestions until it is just slightly better, then re-install XP.
lol
munson makes a good point here. installing xp again would clear up any issues you already have, then you can try again without wondering if it's your OS.
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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.
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