Lightbringer-

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It "saved" the memory dump but upon manual rebooting no files could be found...Grrrr Any clue on how to fix this?

Did that and will reboot PC when I get back from work and dump my memory contents again...In the meanwhile, someone mentioned an alternative copier that does not use windows API...Know/Ever heard of one? Thanks for all your input for troubleshooting this problem.

This seems to be my issue atm...But they are talking about vista. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasetup/thread/7c1a5822-63ee-4758-82be-1c21da781bf2/

Paging is set on OS drive. I got 2gb RAM so I set my paging to 2150MB. Rebooted to activate settings and did the crash dump thingy. No .dmp file anywhere. Maybe some i/o conflict?? At times, when burning dvds, it stops recognising the dvd burner too and I have to reboot....Burner is brand new. No issues whatsoever under XP...

Did that memory dump thingy...It created a BSOD screen indicating that I initiated the dumping procedure...Upon reboot there is no .dmp file I can find...Searched PC for it and there was none... Any clues what to do now?

I have ruled out hardware issues as it happens in different drives copy operations only. The HDD (including removable ones) other than the primary HD stops getting recognised or file transfer goes abysmally slow. Using windows built in firewall and microsoft security essentials... Ill try disabling security essentials and see how it goes...

@iamthekey: Drive to drive(removable included) copying is fast... When I copy files to my 1TB HD (secondary), it sometimes stop getting recognised to WIN7 and I have to reboot. The drive is 100% working and is on nearly 24/7 and I download/copy to it daily. So I assume that the problem is with file copy operations. @cluberti: yes it happens with other copiers too. Tried teracopy also.

Since upgrading to win7, I have been plagued by an extremely slow file copy operations while copying files in different HD/removable drives. Copy starts normally and quickly slows down to 1mb/s or even to kb/s speed at times. On removable drives, it can result in failure to copy. Ive tried different things to correct this and tried to use "fastcopy" as an alternative copier. So far, I've had no luck fixing this issue. I suspect it might be that my PSU is not giving enough juice to my hardware? Expert advice needed on what to do! Cheers and ty.

Im sorry but I disagree. 7z compression for me is better than RAR format in terms on saving space. As to which software is faster, is another issue though.

Maybe you can try tools like HDD regenerator or spinrite to try to get the drive into working condition again?

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