Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition 1TB slows everything to a crawl

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paul.s7876

Hi everyone,

I've recently purchased the hard drive mentioned in the subject line,
and for some reason it slows everything down to a ridiculous level.
If its already switched on when my computer boots up, it adds nearly a
minute to the boot time while its little light is flashing away doing
unknown things, If I turned the drive on after boot up, FreeramXP
reports my available memory dropping to below 10MB while the drive
takes nearly a minute to introduce itself to Windows.
Does anyone else have this problem or any idea as to what might be
causing it?

Thanks,

Paul
 
10MB of free ram.....How much ram memory is installed,since the OS hasnt
started most of its services,you must be running at min amount,try installing
more ram.Also,"freeramxp" you must be jokeing.....
 
I've got 512MB installed, and usually when the computer has finished
booting up and its just sitting there doing nothing, I can have
anywhere from 250-350MB free.
When I turn the hard drive on it drops down to less than 10 then goes
back up again after a minute or so.

Paul
 
Sounds like you need to contact Maxtor.

By the way, we have absolutely no idea who Paul is, you're not posting to
the EggHead Cafe, you're posting to the Microsoft Newsgroups and unless you
tell us more details about your specific problem, we can't assist.
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