Hard drive performance issue

[smugiri]

hi all:
I recently got a 100gb Toshiba MK1032GAX on which I promptly installed SuSE 10. Recently however, work related requirements have forced me to install a copy of Windows so I decided to delete everything from the drive after making good backups. I choose to eat my own dogfood and and use the recovery CDs that I have been sending out. They installed Windows perfectly as well as the standard IBM apps and drivers.

I have a problem though in that the drive is now underperforming. Any read or write of more than say 20mb of data ( application installs of Office, Photoshop etc, trying to copy my work onto the drive from backups ) is very slow and more importantly seems to lock the computer up - the mouse stops responding, keystrokes are not accepted etc etc until the operation completes copying the file in progress/or a set of smaller files. I know that the drive does not have any mechanical issues since it worked much faster in linux and did not seem to lock up.

Any suggestions as to what I can do to try and fix this? I am using IBMs OEM Win XP SP1 with no updates.

[Kyocera]

I'm just curious as to what kind of machine you have I know you are going to probably hate this suggestion but if that happened to me I would do the reinstall over just to be sure it did load perfectly, did it convert to NTFS at the end of the install OK, becasue that might cause an issue of placing your old files back on that drive.

[smugiri]

T40p - a 2373G1U.
I would hate to have to re-install: that sounds so painful, another lost day. I wish there was some kind of magic switch that would fix this. I cancelled the NTFS conversion since I use linux and want read/write access to the partition.

[Kyocera]

http://www.theeldergeek.com/ntfs_or_fat ... system.htm

Check this out you may be having some issues with the size of your partition and fat32.

[smugiri]

Gave up, wiped and re-installed. Seems fine now. Thanks all.