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October 31, 2012 - 4:50pm
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PSkilton
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flash drive causing slow platform?

I recently purchased a Kingston 16GB DataTraveler 101G2 (uninstalled the Urdrive application) to replace an old SanDisk that was getting poor read/write speeds. I used FastCopy Portable to copy about 14GB of files/apps to the Kingston. It took about two hours.

I am wondering now that I have done something wrong because after reinstalling the platform, it takes a long time load, and so far has frozen twice. I got an error after letting it load once that the autorun.inf had been altered, so I scanned it and found nothing. I also read in reviews that to copy files bigger than 4GB that it must be reformated to NTFS, which I did not do. I believe this may be the cause but I'm not sure. Moving the apps to another location was also probably not a good idea...

[EDIT] I am going to see if the autorun detection is causing something, like the support page suggests with proprietary drives. [EDIT] The autorun detection was not enabled.

Any advice?

Thanks,
PSkilton

sorry for the wordy explaination, I hope it's enough info though Wink

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October 31, 2012 - 11:26pm
ottosykora
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nothing wrong

14 G to write to a small flash drive via usb2 in 2 hrs is quite OK. Looks pretty fast to me.

As far as the 4g size:
this is only concerning single files over 4Gb. It is simply a problem with FAT32 which can not accept files bigger then that. It will not make anything slower or so, it will simply not be able to store such file.
Nothing to do with speed.
Flash sticks are otherwise better to use with fat32 as it causes slightly less writing then ntfs.

One can only run checkdisk / scandisk sometimes on flash drives, they are producing file system errors sometimes.

This checking for autorun is something probably done by your antivirus and as the autorun is not much of use in recent operating systems like w7, it is not so much important.

As far as platform , yes it is not so fast when many small files are concerned. It takes some minutes on my sticks too.
It is very fast on w2k, slow on XP, and also slow on w7.

Otto Sykora
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November 1, 2012 - 3:48pm
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Thanks!

Thanks for the info! Sorry about the confusion

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