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In message <mid274dd90hk07ftjqdhlr66utuj7off11@4ax.com>, Anthony R. Gold 
<not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> writes
>I've just started with a new laptop - much like others except a bit more
>memory (2GB) and faster HDD (7.2k SATA) under XP and one behaviour is
>mystifying me - deleting very large files is very slow.  By very large I
>mean over 10GB(*) and by slow I mean over 15 minutes.  No error messages,
>nothing locked AFAICT, just mysteriously very very slow.  BTW the same type
>of deletion is instantaneous when done in safe mode.  And also I get the
>same behaviours (fast under safe mode and slow under normal XP) whether
>deleting large files from the local SATA drive or from USB attached drives.
>
>* I need to do this as I make successive backups using PQ DriveImage or
>Ghost 10 and old archives need to be removed to make space for newer ones.
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>Tony
Is it similarly slow moving them?

Could be your virus checker being over enthusiastic and scanning the 
file.  Depending on how XP does a deletion, it could be scanning 
multiple times.

Can you tell it to ignore files with whatever extension Ghost uses for 
its archives?


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Peter R Cook