I'm at a friend's right now and using his new HP, anything we try to copy, be it from DVD of external HD is going super-slow.

I brought over 1.5GB of images on a DVD and copying the contents all at once (611 files) said it was going to take some multiple hours.

Now we've connected a relatively fast external USB drive and I'm trying to copy about 100GB - the machine counts up the files and then says it's going to take 3 days to copy. The time eventually comes down a bit, but still will read about 25 hours.

SImilar operations on my much slower 1.7Ghz Pentium running XP takes maybe one hour. And only a few minutes for the DVD.

Any ideas?