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USB Bother

gooch2k9 · 2009-11-04 20:07:45

Recently bought a new laptop dell inspiron windows 7. Tried to use my memory stick with it but it takes forever to transfer a file of 800MB. Says in the region of 3-4 hours. Surely this is wrong, could someone tell me what may be my problem?

04-11-2009 9:07pm

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Recently bought a new laptop dell inspiron windows 7. Tried to use my memory stick with it but it takes forever to transfer a file of 800MB. Says in the region of 3-4 hours. Surely this is wrong, could someone tell me what may be my problem?

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#2 05-11-2009 2:15am

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Are you sure that the disk can support USB 2.0? What could be happening is that only USB 1.0 is being utilised. To first check that your PC can even support USB 2.0, go to Device Manager (Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab). In the Device Manager, go to the Universal Serial Bus controllers, and there you should see a ...USB 2.0 Enhanced...

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#3 05-11-2009 1:57pm

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Its got that yes.

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#4 05-11-2009 2:14pm

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gooch2k9 wrote: »

Its got that yes.

Try it in another computer and see if it's still really slow.

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#5 05-11-2009 6:46pm

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Not enough power? Plug in the laptop or change the power plan to High Performance or whatever it is.

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