From: "Geo." 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:41506353{at}w3.nls.net...

> Going from Z to Y (FAT32 to NTFS), it takes 7-12 minutes.  If I copy that
> folder BACK to Z (NTFS to FAT32) the copy takes about a minute or so.  Copy
> it back once again (Z to Y), it takes about 4 minutes.  Once again, back to
> Z from Y, it's a minute or less.

Can you monitor cpu usage while going each way?

I was going to suggest that it may be NTFS being slower at writing but I'm
not convinced that's the issue. There are so many possibilities including a
>2gig issue with FAT32 (doesn't FAT32 cheat to get past certain
limitations?)

Geo.

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