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Please make sure all your volumes are currently in DMA transfer mode.

To check if your volumes are currently in DMA transfer mode:

• Right click My Computer.
• Click Properties.
• Click the Hardware tab.
• Click Device Manager.
• Open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.
• Right click Primary IDE Channel.
• Click Properties.
• Click the Advanced Settings.
• Check the current transfer mode for each device.

If any device is currently in PIO transfer mode please try the following:

• Check your hard drive connections.
• From the Device Manager, For each device under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
  • Right click the device.
  • Click Uninstall.
• Restart your computer.

[therube]

The other day I created a TrueCrypt volume on my brothers laptop HDD.
Creation was dog slow.

Today I was coping files to the laptop, dog slow.

Now the laptop is older & the HDD is only 4200 RPM. Wasn't sure offhand if the NIC was 10 or 100.
So I attributed the slowness to those factors.

A short while ago, I said to myself ... I wonder?.

Sure was, PIO!

I certainly know about PIO/DMA, just hadn't occurred to me to check it.

Glad I did & thanks for the reminder .