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2000/2/8 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:17456 Activity:very high
2/7     How come it takes NT several times longer than Win95 or DOS to copy
        a lot of small files to a floppy diskette?  Copying a few big files
        doesn't have this problem.  Thx.  -- yuen
        \_ does xcopy solve your problem?
           \_ I thought it would, but for some reason no.  Both xcopy and copy
              on NT are very slow when copying a lot of small files like 20KB
              each.  -- yuen
              each to a diskette.  -- yuen
        \_ pkzip
           \_ Doesn't help either.  Unzipping to A: on NT takes very long too.
              I'm using v2.50 for 95/NT.  I can copy the .ZIP file itself to
              the diskette which would be fast, but that's not what I need
              to do.  -- yuen
        \_ Because NT sucks.  No, seriously, no idea.  I've been using both
           NT and 95/98 since day one and never had this problem with NT.
           Try another machine or a new floppy or a new floppy drive.
        \_ I just tried it.  30 .txt files totaling 619 KB write to floppy.
           1:08 on Win98SE, 1:13 on NTSP6. *shrug* Probably something to do
           with your particular system (floppy drive like the man said)
           \_ It must be something wrong with my system then.  It takes more
              than 5 min on mine!  Thanks.  BTW I'm using SP5.  -- yuen
                \_ MS doesn't admit to any floppy driver changes from SP5 ->
                   SP6(a/b) so that's probably not it.  The extra 5 seconds
                   the other person took for NT isn't a good sign for NT but
                   only one run on one machine isn't a perfect test and 5 secs
                   isn't enough to really notice anyway.  5 minutes sounds like
                   NT may have the VERIFY option turned on.  Try turning it off
                   and try again.  Also turn off BREAK.  -floppy drive guy
                   \_ VERIFY is already off, and "BREAK /?" says the BREAK
                      command has no effect under NT.  -- yuen
        \_ i would look at NTFS vs FAT - paolo.
                \_ ignore paolo.  he knows nothing about anything, yet jumps
                   at any chance to display his ignorance.
        \_ Testing on the same machine or is it possible the NT machine just
                has a crappy floppy drive?
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