On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> Hi, >> My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen >> drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor >> slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM >> and I am using a tiling window manager. So I am not even using a lot >> of RAM. Why is this happening? I can't work on my system if I run any >> large file copy/move operation. Please help. >> Thanks. > > Your hard drive might be dying. Back up your files now. > > Seriously? This doesn't happen in Windows 7. Also when I copy files from my new HDD to a pendrive my system still slows down. The new HDD is less than a month old.
