I put together an external harddrive using a Coolmax enclosure and a Maxtor 120GB drive. It was working fine before, but now the transfer rate has gone down significantly and sometimes freezes or stops in the middle of transferring large files. I'm just wondering if anyone has run across a similar problem?
I've tried it on two systems both running WinXP Pro with the same result. But, the two systems have the same USB 2.0 card. I'm not sure whether the problem lies in some software setting or with the hardware itself.
I think the chipset for the external enclosure is an Oxford chip and the hard drive is set to primary. I'm not sure if changing any hardware settings would help because it was working fine at the beginning. The drive is formatted to NTFS. Thank you for your help.
I've tried it on two systems both running WinXP Pro with the same result. But, the two systems have the same USB 2.0 card. I'm not sure whether the problem lies in some software setting or with the hardware itself.
I think the chipset for the external enclosure is an Oxford chip and the hard drive is set to primary. I'm not sure if changing any hardware settings would help because it was working fine at the beginning. The drive is formatted to NTFS. Thank you for your help.