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Copying files slows down
The most common causes of this symptom are the internal buffering used by the system or the hard drive being smaller than the size of the file being copied. Other possibilities include disk-surface issues, fragmentation, competing software, and other disk-related hardware.
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Chapters
0:00 Copying Files Slow
0:55 Buffers and caches
3:12 Hard disk errors
4:30 CHKDSK /R might help
5:14 Free space and fragmentation
6:18 Software
7:25 Hardware
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