Opening Drives

[jdy]

I have a Sony RX-860 P4 Desktop with three hard drives and 512mb of ram. When I click on “my computer” to access my drives, it takes between 3-5 minutes to open. During this period I do not have any other programs running and my hard drives are not even close to full. I have not installed any new hardware or software that I can think of. I also find that when I need to save projects in Photoshop or Illustrator, when I click on "save in", it also takes a lengthy period of time to open.

This is becoming a very irritating issue. I hope that someone can help me with my problem. Thanks.

 

[outonalimb]

Are all your HDD's alike? Is your IDE cable the correct kind for those types of hard disk drive?

I'm not an expert on cabling but I had exactly the same issue at a client's site 2 months ago. I changed the cable linking the drives together and the problem was solved.

From a purely troubleshooting standpoint, disconnect all drives apart from the system drive and try again. If you have a spare IDE cable kicking about, give that a try too.

I'd be interested to hear anyone else's suggestion on the matter.

 

[bcastner]

USB devices oddly are often responsible for this behavior:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;819017