Just tried using itunes with all my songs on an external hard drive and it's pretty obvious that my hard drive is only running at 1.1 instead of 2.0. It's running at normal speed in XP so it's not an issue with the hard drive.

I know it's probably an issue with the drivers but I have tried updating them in device manager but it says the driver is up to date.

I'm also pretty sure it was running normal speed up until quite recently on vista but I can't remember what I did that has caused it to run slow.

Any ideas? This is driving me mad as it's sooo slow. Thanks!

I don't know if this is the case with Vista, but I have had the experience where the USB port(s) get dumbed down if a USB 1.1 device is attached. In other words, HDD works at 2.0 speed. Plug in an old scanner or printer - HDD now only works at 1.1 speeds. ** dw