XP Pro Hard Drive trippiness!

[Elad]

Ok, I'm having weird behavior going on inside that HDD, accessing files is fine, but copying, cutting, pasting, deleting, general moving of files is a little slow its a Maxtor 40K0H2, its an ATA/100 5400 RPM HDD. I have the transfer mode set to UDMA. It is also the same way with my DVD Rom Drive and my 32 read, 8 write, 4 rewrite just a little slow i think they should be faster, here are my complete specs
Compaq Presario 5310US
Windows XP Pro
1200 mhz Intel Celeron :D (Celeron Power!!!!!)
256 Compaq OEM PC133 SDRAM
Maxtor 40GB ATA/100 5400 RPM 40K0H2
256 Micron (Crucial) PC133 SDRAM
64 MB Geforce 2 MX 400 AGP
17" Samtron 77V Monitor
Logitech Optical Scroll Mouse
Compaq 7 Button Internet Keyboard
Lexmark Z22 Color Inkjet Printer
Creative Audio 2.1 Sound System
PCTEL HSP56 56k V.90 Modem
Compaq DVD ROM GD8000
Philips CDD 4801 CDR/CRDW 32X8X4X
SMC EZ Card 10/100 Ethernet NIC
Integrated Audio
OEM 1.44 MB 3 1/2" Floppy Drive

[mjc]

First and probably only question....do you have indexing turned on?

The indexing function can make finding files ever so slightly faster (if you have many files of that don't change much), but it can slow down many file functions like moving and copying while the index gets updated. And it on a resonably fast PC the speed increase in find functions does not equal the performance hit elsewhere.

[Elad]

No I have the indexing service turned off on my PC