Ridiculously slow transfer rates?

[skyline889]

My computer has seemed really sluggish since I cloned over my old drive to my new 80gb Raptor. Theoretically it should have been faster since my os was on my 1tb since my old Raptor died but I noticed it was lagging and causing my CPU to spool to 90-100% much more often than usual so I ran HD Tune and I got about 3.5mb/s for my transfer rate. Both my 500gb and my 1tb got around 65mb/s or higher so something is obviously wrong, my only question is what? Do you think Acronis screwed something up or is it a hardware malfunction?

 

[thebeephaha]

I don't see how a weird hard drive clone would cause massive CPU useage but I have moved away from using Acronis for OS drives, I've found Norton Ghost to be more effective in this area.

Obviously something isn't right so here is what I suggest.

First off, check bios settings for the hard drive, like if its forcing some sort of DMA mode or 16 bit transfers vs 32. Check the cable, I know, its most likely not but try it. Run a full CHKDSK /R from the Windows Recovery off the CD. Defragment, don't use the crappy built in one.

If all that fails, maybe try the clone again if you can and if that doesn't work, get a copy of WD's diagnostic tool and run it on your Raptor, maybe something is wrong with it.

Good luck.