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Originally Posted by polly
It's an NTFS formatted SATA drive that occupies a second drive bay and has a SATA connection to the motherboard. According to CHKDSK, there are no file system errors or bad sectors.
My only antivirus is AVG and ZoneAlarm is my firewall. I exclude my entire data drive from scanning. AVG automatically scans files that I download and CDs/DVDs that I insert.
Process Explorer and Task Manager agree that I'm using about half of my RAM and 60% of my CPU. Nothing resource intensive in the background.
I haven't timed Calibre opening, but would believe 51 minutes. It tends to be ask it to do something, go load the dishwasher, come back for the next step, etc.
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Something is seriously amiss.
Have you run any 'disk drive performance speed tests' on that drive?
That is a 32bit system. 'Half my RAM' is kind a vague.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...mits_windows_7
The slots may accept more than can
be used by W7