El Taco Loco Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hi all. For the past few months, any files over 100 mb just take forever to delete (20 seconds to 7 minutes for a 700mb file). Resources and cpu are at 100% and there is nothing I can do to unfreeze until the deletion is complete. In safe mode this does not happen. So, obviously a driver or something I installed a while back is causing this. I have all sorts of process viewing programs and cannot find the culprit. Short of a fresh install of XP, any ideas or a delete.exe replacement out there? Tks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Sounds like you don't have much contiguous space and the larger files are being scattered around the disk. Have you done a defrag lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Are we talking about a simple delete, or a delete with wipe, or Erase? The latter can take some time in large files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) 1 - Check if your HD is running in PIO mode - that will degrade performance like crazy and cause high CPU usage - Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager button - Device Manager -> IDE/ATA ATAPI Controllers - double click primary IDE channel, Advanced Settings Tab - Check that Transfer mode popup is set to "DMA if available" - Check that the "Current" field sows "Ultra DMA mode 5" or some other DMA mode, and NOT PIO mode. - repeat for secondary IDE channel, though thats the CD/DVD and not as critical. If your HD is in PIO mode there are ways to remedy that. 2 - Defrag your drive though if that was the cause it would happen in safe mode too As for drivers - any resident AV or desktop search software could cause this, disable all AV and desktop search things. Just a wild guess. Edited April 25, 2007 by nikster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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