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XP unusable whilst hard drives are in use
LockedI have a Phenom II X3 720, 4GB DDR2 1066Mhz, a Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H motherboard and a 1TB Samsung HD103UJ and a 640GB WD6400AAKS.
Whenever I do something that involves transferring files or processing data from one hard drive to the other, my PC becomes basically unusable and switching back to Opera takes ages, as does changing between tabs in it. The program transferring files is barely using any CPU time and my CPU usage overall is very low during this time.
I realise that Opera stores temp files on the main drive and needs to access them, which is going to conflict with the other program that is reading files from that drive and processing them before writing them to the second drive, but something doesn’t seem right as I read about people doing other things whilst they’re processing files in the background, but my PC just doesn’t seem to be able to multi-task like this whilst the harddrives are in use.