In this case, the user cannot turn on DMA for this device. The only option for the user who wants to enable DMA mode is to uninstall and reinstall the device....
now because its your boot drive I'm not sure you can do this and still boot up...but you want to try...make sure plug and play is enabled in the bios first...
Yes happyrck I already tried uninstalling, I read somewhere else that I can do this and Windows will just reinstall it on start up again. I mentioned this and the results in post 28. After doing that, I then changed my external drive and posted those results. So it seems you're saying that not only does the drive produce errors in DMA and revert to PIO mode, it's stuck on the SLOWEST PIO mode at that? Oh man that's annoying...
It's the weekend, I emailed Samsung late Friday afternoon and received an email reply very quickly saying that my message had been passed on to a hard drive technician, so I have a feeling it might not be for another 3-4 working days, so maybe by Thursday? It's alright, I have patience...
Okay The Skeptic, I'll try doing that with the paging file right now. I know that currently it is set at 1.5x my RAM, but not the maximum at double. It's worth a try.
Thanks heaps for your replies, I really appreciate it. If you are reading this thread and have an idea, feel free to post, saying "I have an idea"...