How to speed up my hard disk?

[hafees]

Recently i ve bought an 80 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (PATA). I used Norton Ghost to duplicate my original harddisk. Ghost showed a speed of 1900 + MB per Minute. After that I copied a 670 MB divx movie from 1 partition to another. It took almost 2 minutes to complete the copy. That is a dos based application like Ghost can copy my files with speed of almost 2 GB. and in Windows XP the speed is almost 1/4th.

DMA is enabled and shown as Ultra DMA mode 5.

Pls advice me. When i used a Samsung Puma it was much faster. what could be wrong. Also my new hard disk produces some sounds as the old hard disks.

[rajas700]

May be some spindle problem.It is better contact your vendor.

[siriusb]

Listen, harddisk speed can never reach greater than 133MB/s and certainly not more than 70 to 80 in case of pata. Because, even if the hdd can transfer at that rate, the port can't handle more than it can. What you saw may be related to compression or transfer from memory cache.

[hafees]

My drive support ATA 100. That is 100 MB per second is supported.
1900 MB/Minute means almost 30MB /Seconds. It means it is normal speed. But Windows XP took more than two minutes to copy a 650 MB divx movie. Do you think this is normal??? that is only 5 MB per second.