Card reader - Slow Downloads

For some unknown reason I am suddenly experiencing extremely slow downloads when attempting to download images from my compact flash cards using a card reader to an Iomega external drive.
Until recently downloading a 16GB card to my external drive would probably take no more than 15-20 minutes.
However for some reason I cannot fathom out this now takes a full 3 hours !!
I have several compact flash cards and the problem occurs with all cards so I'm confident it is not a media card issue.
In addition I also have two different card readers and the problem is the same with both. I have also tried using another cable connecting the card reader to the Mac and the cable from the external drive to Mac to no avail.
For the record the compact flash cards are genuine Sandisk Extreme Pro cards with a read/write speed of 90MB/s.
Not sure its entirely relevant but I have recently upgraded to Lion 10.7.2 and downloaded trial versions of Aperture and Adobe Photoshop.
I have Also run a system scan using Mackeeper and cleared the Cache etc.
I am now running out of ideas so any help or advice much appreciated.
As already mentioned the problem has only started and was never an issue before using the same hardware, cards etc.
Eos

Hello sam45,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.
I understand you are having issues with your SD card being slow to be read from after you updated your computer to Windows 8.1.
I am curious have you tried re-formating the SD card on the new OS?
Have you tried other SD cards to see if the issue is consistant? Have you tried a clean profile on your computer? To do this simply make a new profile/user and see if the SD card still takes a while.
Do you have an Anti-Virus running on your computer? If you do try disabling it to see if the issue persists.
If you could provide me with the answers to these questions it would be of great help in finding you a solution. Thank you for posting on the HP Forums. Have a wonderful day!
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