Most flash drives won't handle many files at once, installing. When you install any file 5mb can take 8 mins if it has a lot of files. If one by one is installing the install process would go much faster like in seconds. I hope somebody could come up with a program that would be like a file manager for usb devices, but would install files one by one.
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It's the slowness of USB and the stop/start of the controller on each file. They're actually written one at a time by Windows AFAIK.
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When I seporated the files, exe file would be 1 transfer and then uploaded the rest from each folder 1 at a time it made the process go much faster. Why is that ?
Hi all,
Windows (XP, anyway) disables write caching by default for USB drives. This means that file transfers aren't optimised. The only way that I know of to enable this is to a) use NTFS on your drive or b) I believe that you can enable it (in the device manager properties), but you MUST "safely remove hardware". However, this is computer specific.
Regards,
pfeerick
Additionally, NTFS drives tend to write all the time, as the system updates the file table and updates the "last access times".
This is ntfs specific.
For USB-Drives this can be extremely stressing.
So it is not really a good idea to put ntfs on a flash-drive.
Regards
Thorsten