Around about 26/01/11 15:30, Echlin, Jamie typed ...
Perhaps your Master File Table is fragmented... In which case a defrag might help.
We see exactly the same problem on two diff. Windows PCs, but I'll give ImDisk a bash in the morning for the sake of experimentation.
And I recently defreagged mine. -- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit