I was wondering why it takes so long to transfer files from one partition to another is so slow even if its on the same harddrive. and is there any way to speed it up, thanks.

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It depends what you mean by slow - FAT 16 and FAT 32 are notoriously slow at copying files. NTFS is better but you can't use that with Win ME, so if you are transferring large numbers of files or large sizes of files then it will be slow - but define slow. How many files and of what size are you transferring and how long does it take?

like 700mb files, i thought because it is the same hard disk it would be like normal speed not over 2 mintues

You are limited by the physical drive's abilities. In cases like this, I just start the task and leave, and do other things, that way, it doesn't seem slow.

hehe thanks. but its just that transferring files on the same partition is very very fast. and transferring files to a different partition on the same drive is quite slow. but anyway thanks for the help.

If you mean "transferring" a large file from one folder to another on the same partition, all you are doing is altering the file allocation table information about where the file is stored - you are not actually moving it. Moving it to another partition means making a copy.

two minets for a 700meg file is not that bad.
since it needs to actually write it in the other partion.and your only running a 450mhz
thats actually good speed.

copying a large file to a second partition of the same physical hard drive should take about twice as long as copying to a second physical hard drive. If you copy lots of big files, you might try a larger cluster size when you format your drive.
A regular format will give you 4Kb clusters.
By using a secret (Magic) switch with the format command, you can increase your cluster size up to 32Kb Maximum with ME.
Such as;

Format D: /Z:64

The secret /Z:64 switch tells FORMAT to use 64 allocation units of 512 bytes per cluster.
So, 64 X 512 = 32Kbyte clusters

For any drive of 20-GB or larger that will be used for Audio/Video Recording/Editing,
Big-Clusters are a MUST!!!!!!!!

Bob/808