If you are attaching an external hard drive to your Windows vista computer or laptop, then you might always notice it in a slower speed until you manually do some process to speed it up.
Basically the hard drives are not optimized to work speeder and they perform working in a normal rate. You have to choose whether to make it work normally or faster.
You have to follow these steps to choose to make the external hard drive run faster -
- Click on the start button in the left bottom portion.
- Then Click on the Start Search Box.
- Type “Device Manager” in the search box and press enter.
- Device manager window appears, and then you will have to check for the External Hard Drive that you are using.
- Then after selecting it, the new external hard drive properties window opens.
- Click on the policies tab in the window.
- Click on the option “Optimize for performance” - By selecting this, the write caching in Windows is enabled and this improves the disk performance.
- Select OK and close everything.
- Restart your computer, you will see a bit increase in the speed of external hard drive.

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5 Comments
Oh, hmm… I’m using an external but I haven’t tried this yet. Nice tip, I’ll check it out and report back to let you know if it makes a difference.
Nice tip, its s shame my external drive has jsut gone to PC heaven though.
Vista is bad Windows)) It eat many computer source! XP forever!
Thanks a lot for the information and it is very excellent as i have installed Windows Vista in my Laptop recently and was worried about the speed up of external hard drive and now my problem is solved.
I think i should try out this, since everytime i want to backup my files to the external and files are large, hopes this will works.
Thanks
David Cheong.
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