08-03-2016, 12:48 AM
It was a usb solid state drive.
Anyway now I am trying with a 3.5in drive on a usb3.0 interface & it is lots better .
I was able to create 2 partitions on the drive one FAT32 & one NTFS , then I could use legacy formatting which seemed to go much better .
Also I have upped the partition size on vrtualbox to 1200 ( from 1024 ) .
I must try again with the solid state usb - try legacy mode .
Basically I run Win 10 on a 4Gb dual celeron processor with a ITB drive but no other disk slots and no memory expansion ( unless I swop the 4gb to 8gb ). Its running two virtualbox - both XP 220mb & 1200 mb virtula memory size.
Anyway now I am trying with a 3.5in drive on a usb3.0 interface & it is lots better .
I was able to create 2 partitions on the drive one FAT32 & one NTFS , then I could use legacy formatting which seemed to go much better .
Also I have upped the partition size on vrtualbox to 1200 ( from 1024 ) .
I must try again with the solid state usb - try legacy mode .
Basically I run Win 10 on a 4Gb dual celeron processor with a ITB drive but no other disk slots and no memory expansion ( unless I swop the 4gb to 8gb ). Its running two virtualbox - both XP 220mb & 1200 mb virtula memory size.