Hi
I recently had a noisy hard drive on my desk top so purchased a new one, formatted the HD and reinstalled Windows XP Professional and then installed Windows Service Pack 2.
With the old hard drive in the system, I had USB2.0 connection for my external storage drives. Now with the re-instal, I get a warning message advising that "This device could perform faster if I had USB 2.0 etc...." The transfer of data is now very slow from external drive to computer and vice versa.
This desk top is used for editing digital images only, it does not have an internet connection (for fear of viruses), so I can't connect to update drivers etc. But I do have a laptop that is conencted for doing dowloads
I don't have a CD that may have come with the Sempron processor wen I bought it two years ago.
Any ideas would be appreciated !

Could try with reinstall / update the motherboard chipset drivers to the latest. Which motherboard model&make?

Make a backup of the stuff you want to keep safe. Enable its internet connection, update drivers+SP3, latest fixes and SW you need. Disable internet connection.

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Edited: 03/17/2009 at 03:56 AM by go_for