I recently bought a new hard drive to supplement the one I already have. I installed it, and then figured out that I needed to format it in order for windows to detect it. I did format it; I did the "dynamic" option. I formatted it; and although windows is detecting it now, it seriously takes about 5 minutes to transfer 5mb worth of information from the C drive to the new one. It is painfully, eye gougingly slow. Please tell me what I can do so I can actually use my new 500gb of space.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately you didn't tell us anything about your system. There are a number of reasons why you can have slow data transfer.

Sorry about that.

I'm using Vista 64 bit.

Both are SATA; My working HD, is an ST332062 0AS SCSI (whatever that is) and my new, non-working disk drive is a Hitachi HDS721050CLA.

I have some Nvida SLI motherboard; not sure which one.
Two Geforce 8800 GTX's SLI'd.
An NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA controller (?)

Intel Core2Extreme CPU Q6850 3.0ghz

And I believe about like, 16 gigs of ram?

And in my device manager, it says (under computer) ACPI x64-based PC

I hope all this helps. Thanks for responding to my post.

Property Value
Manufacturer EVGA
Model 122-CK-NF68
Version 2
Serial Number 1

North Bridge NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI SPP Revision A2
South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP Revision A2

CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
Cpu Socket Socket 775 LGA

System Slots 2 PCI
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16Gb of RAM is a HUGE amount - not something you would have bought at a store. Right click on Computer and select Properties and it will tell you how much RAM.

How did you format it?

And note that transferring files from one drive to another has always been agonizingly slow. You might try Robocopy and see how it works.

Well. I finally got it to work. I honestly do not know how either. I played around with the formatting options? I quickformatted it like 6 times, while tweaking different options. And finally; it worked. Thanks all for responding to my pleas!

Glad you got it working. Thanks for the followup.