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iantresman · 27-01-2004, 18:33

I have a new Maxtor One Touch 300gb plugged into my firewire port. Some of the folders are shared.

When I reboot my PC, it takes 5 mins+ to get back into Windows, which doesn't happen when I unplug the drive; but if I do this, then I loose my shared folder and have to re-enable it which takes 5 mins+ as it has to set permissions for each folder, subfolder and file (50Gb worth).

When the drive is plugged in, then during the reboot, I would guess that Winows XP has to set-up the shared folder each reboot by setting the permissions for each folder, subfolder etc, each time. Hence the 5 minute wait.

This does seem absurd. Am I doing something stupid, or is there a workaround?

Ian Tresman
Derby UK

27-01-2004, 18:33	#1
iantresman Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 45	Firewire HDD with sharing takes ages to start I have a new Maxtor One Touch 300gb plugged into my firewire port. Some of the folders are shared. When I reboot my PC, it takes 5 mins+ to get back into Windows, which doesn't happen when I unplug the drive; but if I do this, then I loose my shared folder and have to re-enable it which takes 5 mins+ as it has to set permissions for each folder, subfolder and file (50Gb worth). When the drive is plugged in, then during the reboot, I would guess that Winows XP has to set-up the shared folder each reboot by setting the permissions for each folder, subfolder etc, each time. Hence the 5 minute wait. This does seem absurd. Am I doing something stupid, or is there a workaround? Ian Tresman Derby UK