Vista Business Extremely Slow HDD Speed

Just installed Vista Business on a brand new MacBook Pro 15". Installation went completely without hiccup, all hardware appears to work fine.
However, I am trying to transfer 30Gb of data to the internal HDD. I have tried transfers over the network (Gigabit), from an external USB 2.0 HDD, and internally from the Mac partition to the Boot Camp partition. Under no circumstances can I achieve a transfer rate higher than 1.5 Mb /sec.
Any ideas? All updates have been installed...

t3kka wrote:Reading around on some other threads I found regarding a slow login to tty I noticed some folks state that a large root partition could be the problem. My HDD is 500GB with the root, var, swap, and home partitions being ~80GB, ~20GB, ~6GB, and then the remainder as in home (respectively). Maybe having a large root partition along with the location of the home partition makes the HDD head travel a much further distance which is physically equated to a delay in login and other actions. With such a large HDD, what would you recommend for partition schemes?
I have a 640 gb 5400rpm drive, and I've installed arch with only a huge root partition on it in the past, and had no speed issues (currently I have a 40gb root and a ~595gb home and a 5 gig swap).
Last edited by bwat47 (2012-06-24 20:56:03)

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