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I find mounted hard drives much slower than a physical drive?

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First post, by lucky7456969

Posted on 2014-02-06, 06:03

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I created 2 two gigs virtual hard drives for my dosbox.
The games ran incredibly slower, while on a physical drive, it is lightning fast.
Can it be accelerated?
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Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2014-02-06, 11:15

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Games don't really need much speed as far as the hard drive is concerned. Are you sure your speed issue is drive speed?

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Reply 2 of 4, by lucky7456969

Posted on 2014-02-12, 19:13

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Yes, I tried to run games on windows, like winrisk
and windows 3.1 takes forever to load

HELP, FAT file system runs as slow as a snail
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Reply 3 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-02-13, 15:44

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Defrag and don't use file compression.

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Reply 4 of 4, by lucky7456969

Posted on 2014-02-25, 23:37

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leileilol wrote:
Defrag and don't use file compression.

How do I know if the fat drive is under compression?
and how do I uncompress it?

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Jack

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