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1. Usb drive format taking too long 64 Bit#
2. Usb drive format taking too long update#
3. Usb drive format taking too long 32 bit#
4. Usb drive format taking too long pro#

With the initial release of Vista, there was a similar problem with very slow Windows Explorer performance and I wonder if Microsoft has let some bad code get reintroduced in some recent Windows 7 change. I hate to think I've wasted money on two versions of Windows 7, but with this problem being as signficant as it is, I'm questioning if I should return to using Vista 64 Ultimate, where I had no problems of this nature except during the pre-SP1 phase.

File mangement via the command prompt is no problem at all, so I find it inexcusable that there is any delay with Windows Explorer when performing identical operations.

Usb drive format taking too long update#

This leaves me to question is there has been some Windows 7 update that has introduced this problem. I've not been using Windows 7 for all that long, but I'm virtually certain I've done some video file management on USB drives without such problems before. I've waited as much as 30-40 minutes for completion, when of course anything more than even 3-4 seconds should be deemed unacceptable. Originally the problem seemed to manifest itself as the data collection process indicated by the green "progress" (if one can call it progress) bar crawling across the address window but never quite finishing. Basically, the moment I browse to said folder, Windows Explorer seems to just lock up and my only solution at the moment is to kill all explorer.exe processes and run explorer.exe again. The problem is uniquely with video files but I have not explored it any further to isolate the problem to a particular video format, i.e., AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, etc.

Usb drive format taking too long pro#

I'll add my two cents worth as to say I'm likewise seeing a wholly unacceptable (as in unusable) slowdown in Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (desktop) and Windows 7 Premium 64-bit (netbook) when.as best I can isolate things.browsing a folder of video files on a USB flash drive or USB hard drive. I'm no techie and would really appreciate some suggestions if anyone has any ideas or has heard of othe rinstances where Windows seems to change drive letter allocation mid-session. It appears as F: but when it failed it was looking for O: I'm stumped and frustrated Close to reformatting but having only just got up and running after the 'upgrade' from Vista I'm not sure I can face it. I thought it might be a size issue so tried copying across in smaller sections - drag and drop worked once for four files then the same problem - reboot and all is well again - then copy and paste for four more files worked okay once then the same again! I did explore and for some reason the system was looking to read from or write to a different drive letter to teh one it had allocated to the external drive. I can open it in Computer and open the files that did copy (about half the folder). I copied a bunch of photos from my son's wedding with no problem, then when I tried to copier a slightly larger folder across (635 MB) I get the same message 'The item is no longer in this location'. Today the Freecom has started to do the same. So I kind of gave up and planned to return it under warranty and rely on the old Freecom box in the meantime - just cutting back on the number of files backed up.

Usb drive format taking too long 32 bit#

Cut a long story short - including reformatting the Seagate several times - we fiddled around until it worked fine on my son in laws system Windows 7 32 bit Home - brought it back and it worked fine on mine for a few minutes - then began the same behaviour again.

A week or so before Christmas the Seagate kept 'disappearing' it would be visible in Computer Management where it appeared to be 'running normally' but when i tried to access the drive I would get messages saying the item was 'no longer in that location'. I have two external drives - a relatively old 150Gb freecom and a 6 month old 1Tb Seagate - both of which worked fine with old Vista Home setup.

Usb drive format taking too long 64 Bit#

My Windows 7 professional 64 bit system has caused several issues for me which may be related.