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I recently bought a kingston 8gb pendrive and found that its very slow.
I takes a hell of time to copy files in it.
The same problem occurs when copying files from it.
I checked the pendrive on both Windows(XP, Vista & Win7) and Linux and its slow on all of them.

Is the anyway I can fasten my pendrive?

Thanks spark for the reply.
It is the problem with pen drive as I had checked it on three different laptops and also other kingston pendrive I have reads/writes quickly at a normal rate on the same computers I had checked.

Having problems in the past I found this http://www.filehippo.com/download_teracopy/

Mike

You could try this to see if there are any problems with the flash drive.

BUT!!!!

Be sure to remove everything from the stick first as it can sometimes cause problems.

The programme is designed to find any corruptions and also to check it is an authentic version.

Cheap pendrives are generally very slow (unless you are lucky). You can measure the speed with HD Tune. Then you will know what you have. Let HD Tune run all the way to the end. Then you also get the access time.

I found that pendrives formatted in Fat32 are a bit faster than when formatted in NTFS. But that is only good for data - not programs.

If you want a really fast pendrive, you need USB3 and something like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....0SF0BP6260 I have used it and found it to be very fast.