"Richard Urban" wrote:
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> Just what is slower? Formatting them?[/color]
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> Did you go into device manager and optimize the USB thumb drive for speed?
> It is NOT the default setting.
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Richard,
I did set the drive to optium speed, that's what I meant by changing
policy. Apologies for not being clearer. File copies were also slower, but I
decided to just concentrate of the time taken for a format. Thought I would
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>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:40A5CBEC-F212-43C3-8E98-69BDA4EC8E75@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I have done some tests on a variety of usb sticks using xp pro 64 bit,
> >vista
> > Ultimate 32 bit and vista Premium 64 bit.
> >
> > I have E6600 processor with 4G memory.
> > Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 motherboard.
> >
> > All tests were completed on the same PC / hardware
> >
> > I have formatted a variety of devices from 8G to 0.5G and they are all
> > significantly faster running under XP pro.
> >
> > Under XP pro the 8G stick takes just 20 seconds... under either vista the
> > time taken was just under 10 minutes!!
> >
> > Ihave tried, changing the policy statements for the sticks ( no
> > difference),
> > removed all other usb devices (no difference), plugging them into
> > different
> > ports (no difference)
> >
> > The drivers being used all say Microsoft on all systems. With my limited
> > knowledge it very much looks like a Microsoft problem.
> >
> > However could it be a motherboard / driver problem?[/color]
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