Windows XP slow directory move

Posted by maaartinus on Super User See other posts from Super User or by maaartinus
Published on 2011-02-05T17:59:07Z Indexed on 2011/02/05 23:27 UTC
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When I move a directory containing 900 MB in 4k files to another directory in the same filesystem, it takes nearly 1 minute and I hear the disk working. It's NTFS on Windows XP, the disk is quite fast (ST3100015 28AS) and works fine according to CrystalMark. I switched the antivirus off, and there's nothing else running (there's a lot of processes, but none doing any work).

WTF is it doing instead of changing two directory entries?

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