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Window 7, slow to delete

Senna · 2010-01-08 04:38:46

Just wondering has anyone encountered this, at the moment i deleting files off a external hard drive, but deleting them is taking a similar amount of time as it would to transfer them, i.e. Deleting a 1gb file takes about a minute. That cant be normal, is it?

08-01-2010 4:38am

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Senna

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Just wondering has anyone encountered this, at the moment i deleting files off a external hard drive, but deleting them is taking a similar amount of time as it would to transfer them, i.e. Deleting a 1gb file takes about a minute.

That cant be normal, is it?

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#2 08-01-2010 4:51am

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I haven't deleted files that big (over 1gb) off a HDD but something I noticed that files off external drives were not been deleted, but were been moved to recycle bin then deleted. So that could be it...

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#3 08-01-2010 6:27pm

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Try shift delete / check for AV scanning

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