How to speed up an external hard drive in Windows Vista
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.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:57 am
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.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Nice tip, its s shame my external drive has jsut gone to PC heaven though.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Vista is bad Windows)) It eat many computer source! XP forever!
June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
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.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:33 am
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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September 17th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Great tips, but I still using Windows XP. Hope to upgrade to Windows Vista
October 31st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for the tip I have vista on my other computer but i dont use it much
Thanks anyways
May 7th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
this simple trick should be known to everybody.
thanks for sharing.