


as im unsure as to exactly why this should be needed? (any explanations as to why this may help?) b. I'm a little reluctant at the moment to try reducing the RAM a. I have also updated the nForce driver to the latest available from the nVidia website.

I tried to install the HotFix for nVidia chipset drivers and was informed that due to WAU its already installed. (This was both as a FAT32 and now an NTFS FS) I have stopped all my AV apps and have also disabled the SuperFetch and the Remote Differential Compression (fixes more attuned to Windows Vista transfer speed problems), this has made no difference. Whenever i attach my Portable USB HDD to my Windows 7 Pro 圆4 machine and try to copy anything more than 1MB the copy either fails or takes a considerable amount of time to complete, it doesnt seem to process much faster than 1MB/s and rarely completes. I'm also having this problem on my Intel Quad Core, ASUS Striker II Formula nForce 780i SLI chipset board, with 4GB matched Corsair XMS2 DDR2 RAM. wish microsoft would hurry up and get a handle on this. not sure what else to try now but a fresh installation of windows, and i get the feeling the problem will just resurface even if i do go to all that trouble. I've read a lot of people saying that they're having this problem with all usb hard drives - it's probably worth noting that although my 1tb seagate hdd does not function properly, a 500gb WD hdd works fine, and did before the hotfix. I've tried using the hdd on another pc, also win7 圆4, 2gb ram, amd 2.0 single core, and it works flawlessly. Physically removing ram modules to leave only 2gb doesn't resolve the problem. When i do manage to succesfully connect the device and open folders, transfers stop after a few seconds. one time i left it frozen to see what would happen - after about 10 mins it bluescreened. 90% of the time connecting the 1tb USB hdd will cause the system to recognise the hardware, attempt to open the folders therein, then hang.

I installed the hotfix, which did actually resolve the issue.
