[Phat parrot]

I have three internal hard drives, all SATA They seem very slow when accessing the drives in an XP window folders option. The left hand section show the drives ok but when clicking on the + sign next to the drive there is a lag in accessing the contents of that drive. I can hear it spinning so something is happening. However, click on an icon anywhere else and it opens instantly. I am presuming it is a motherboard BIOS problem so I have updated but made no change

Any ideas will be much appreciated

[Dave Hybrid]

Try doing a defrag and scandisk on them.

Also try removing the SATA controller from device manager and re-install it.

[Phat parrot]

Thanks for your reply. I tried all you suggested but with no luck. It happens to all three drives but seems much slower on the data drives where the C drives does lag a little but nowhere as much.

[Dave Hybrid]

You tried uninstalling the controller in device manager?

[Phat parrot]

Yes, done that. There are two controllers which read; intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 family) Ultra ATA storage controller - 27DF. The other is the virtually same apart from the word serial in from of ATA.

[sirantonycartwright]

BACK EVERYTHING YOU NEED UP.
Disconnect all of the drives but one.
Format one, and reinstall windows on it, whats that drive like now?
If its fixed, you had a software problem, so youll need to format the others.
If its not fixed you likely have a bad OS CD or a hardware problem which i cant fix.

Even when sata is limited to 1.5gb via pins and mobo, its still super fast!
The rpm of the hdd might have an influence but sata drives normally have a high rpm count so it probably wouldnt be that.

[Phat parrot]

Thanks again for your input. The Os is newly installed and the hard drives are two weeks old. Tried disconnecting the drives with no effect. This is the second format I tried on C

What is happening...........

Cheers