when transferring files lets say between my two internal hds, both 7200 rpm, i have recntly noticed a big slow down, also in my unzipping from lets say winrar or winzip, i downlaoded a vid the other day that was more than a gig, and it took me a half hour to complete the process and put the files where i wanted them.

What im asking is, doses anyone know of or ever heard of any slowdown problem like this, maybe its something i should change in my bios?....is there something in the registry i can correct or upgrade....id like my stuff to really speed up, i remeber when i use to do it in under 5 minutes, all of it, now its taking forever.

Did you check if both your drives are running in DMA mode? :)

this is true, whenn i go into the bios, what shouldi look for to cotrrect this, i have 2x250gb hds that re running on dma 5, but theones i have hooked directly up to the mother board, and in external enclosures, i dont know what they are, how can i check this, and corect this..holla back

control panel->system->hardware->device manager->IDE/ATA controllers

Also, spy ware can slow your PC down.

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Have you added antivirus software recently? that can slow the system down a lot depening on what software you use.

Have you defragged the drive recently? Heavily fragmented drives can slow a system down considerably.

Have you checked taskmanager for suspicios entries using 100% cpu time? Sometimes processes hang or loop using a high percentage of cpu time and excessive drive usage.