boombihead
07-19-2006, 07:08 PM
Hi Guys,
Hope some one can help I’m a Linux newb. Here is my prob, Windows is broken again so i got my knoppix CD and my external USB 2.0 hard drive to back up all my windows files. So far so good everything works.
Once i start the copy it starts get a transfer rate of about 20 MB/s after about a min this drops and fluctuates between 500 kb/s to 3 MB/s it also says stalled every now and again.
the trouble shooting i have already done made sure USB 2.0 is running by loding with cheat code "knoppix usb2" made sure DMA is enabled for all internal disks.
I ran K -> system -> system monitor
Before I start copying this showed everything working good low CPU usage and low memory usage when I start the copy job in seconds memory usage spikes to 99/100 % that is when the transfer speed falls.
I have about 50 Gig worth of data that needs to be backed up and I can't wait a week for it to transfer across. I know I deserve it, it was stupid not to back things up earlier.
Will appreciate any help you guys can give me
Naj.
P.S
I cant do a windows repair install as it says the file system is unknown and needs to be repartitioned. Works fine in knoppix so this is my only option to get my data backed up.
Hope some one can help I’m a Linux newb. Here is my prob, Windows is broken again so i got my knoppix CD and my external USB 2.0 hard drive to back up all my windows files. So far so good everything works.
Once i start the copy it starts get a transfer rate of about 20 MB/s after about a min this drops and fluctuates between 500 kb/s to 3 MB/s it also says stalled every now and again.
the trouble shooting i have already done made sure USB 2.0 is running by loding with cheat code "knoppix usb2" made sure DMA is enabled for all internal disks.
I ran K -> system -> system monitor
Before I start copying this showed everything working good low CPU usage and low memory usage when I start the copy job in seconds memory usage spikes to 99/100 % that is when the transfer speed falls.
I have about 50 Gig worth of data that needs to be backed up and I can't wait a week for it to transfer across. I know I deserve it, it was stupid not to back things up earlier.
Will appreciate any help you guys can give me
Naj.
P.S
I cant do a windows repair install as it says the file system is unknown and needs to be repartitioned. Works fine in knoppix so this is my only option to get my data backed up.