W7 issue: Copy to USB gives an extreme long "Calculating Time Remaining"...

arj0n · Sun 04/12/2011 13:47:29

Since abaut a month I'm having the following issue using Win7:

When copying a file to USB it goes quickly until the progress-bar reaches about 90%.
It then will hang for about 3 to 5 minutes saying it's "Calculating Time Remaining"...
This only happens when copying from HD to USB and from USB to USB. (USB = USB sticks and USB disks)
When cancelling the copy operation it also takes at least up to 5 minutes until the copy dialog will disappear.

It's not a driver issue cause they are all up to date.

A temporary solution is using Teracopy but I don't want to use that proggy anymore cause it crashes randomly once in a while.
So far I haven't been able to find a proper solution (except for waiting for Win8 and hoping they will have fixed this damn issue)

Anyone else having this problem?
Anyone know a solution for this extremely annoying issue?

Gilbert · Sun 04/12/2011 14:07:11

Could it be just your virus scanner scanning the files being copied?

poc301 · Sun 04/12/2011 14:33:57

Have you tried one of the other ports? It might be a bad port...

The other thought is something wrong with that bus on the computer. If you're usually using the USB ports on the front of the computer, try using the ports on the back of the computer.

The other thing you could try is updating the motherboard drivers, or reloading them. SOmething might've gotten corrupted.

-Bill

arj0n · Sun 04/12/2011 14:50:35

Thanx for the reply's.

Quote from: Iceboty V7000a on Sun 04/12/2011 14:07:11
Could it be just your virus scanner scanning the files being copied?

I guess not, I've excluded that usb-drive: it still occurs. I've disabled 'real time protection': it still occurs.

Quote from: poc301 on Sun 04/12/2011 14:33:57
Have you tried one of the other ports? It might be a bad port...

Yup, tried already, wasn't a bad port.

Quote from: poc301 on Sun 04/12/2011 14:33:57
The other thought is something wrong with that bus on the computer. If you're usually using the USB ports on the front of the computer, try using the ports on the back of the computer.

I never use the frontside ports but I tried and no difference, still same issue.

Quote from: poc301 on Sun 04/12/2011 14:33:57
The other thing you could try is updating the motherboard drivers, or reloading them. SOmething might've gotten corrupted.

might be, but wouldn't that give more issues then just only this copy-to-usb-issue?

arj0n · Sun 04/12/2011 15:08:37

I don't know if this might be causing it, I removed both the NEC and the Renesas 3.0 usb driver and reinstalled the NEC from the original ASUS driver disk.
It keeps ending up like shown in the image below. My guess is that the Renesas driver takes over the NEC driver functions but I'm not sure...:

Khris · Sun 04/12/2011 20:14:40

Wild guess: the USB stick is either really fragmented or one of the storage chips has a problem. As in, Win7 struggles to read/write data but it's not broken enough to give an error.

Does this happen to every USB stick? Does it happen if you copy a really small file, like a text file containing only a few characters?

arj0n · Mon 05/12/2011 12:35:10

Quote from: Khris on Sun 04/12/2011 20:14:40
Wild guess: the USB stick is either really fragmented or one of the storage chips has a problem. As in, Win7 struggles to read/write data but it's not broken enough to give an error.

Strange thing is: I formatted one of these sticks (although quick-format) but then this issue still occurs.

edit: did a full format on an usb stick. Then copied a large file to it but the problem still occurs.

Quote from: Khris on Sun 04/12/2011 20:14:40
Does this happen to every USB stick?

Yes (tested 3)

Quote from: Khris on Sun 04/12/2011 20:14:40
Does it happen if you copy a really small file, like a text file containing only a few characters?

Nope, I noticed that to. But don't know why it only happens with bigger files.

Ali · Mon 05/12/2011 13:45:46

I've no idea what the cause could be, but have you tried copying through an elevated command prompt?

That might bypass the indexing service which could be part of the problem. Or try disable the indexing service before copying.

arj0n · Mon 05/12/2011 14:31:55

Quote from: Ali on Mon 05/12/2011 13:45:46
I've no idea what the cause could be, but have you tried copying through an elevated command prompt?

That might bypass the indexing service which could be part of the problem. Or try disable the indexing service before copying.

I already disabled that service months ago and it's still turned off (checked).

I checked copying using a batchfile vs windows-explorer-copying (first started the batchfile and then immediately copy another file of the same size by the explorer): both takes the same amount of time.
Actually, the explorer is a few seconds 'faster' (tested it twice).