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iPod HELP! USB transfer rate is much slower on WinXP than in Win2K

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mzenz:
Since I bought my iPod Nano 1st gen (4Gb) I've disappointed about it's USB transfer rate on WinXP SP2 (I have an Athlon 64, Asus A8N-E, 1Gb Dual Channel RAM). I first thought "OK, this is the best the player can do, after all, it's FAT formatted". But for my surprise, it's transfer rate on Win2K SP4 is pretty close to the hard disk. I haven't performed a serious benchmark (I could make a little program to measure transfer rates), but it is incredibly faster on Win2K. In fact, it REALLY sucks on WinXP which has much better and newer hardware.
Does anyone know what's going on? I couldn't find any config options for accelerating this, nor in the BIOS config or WinXP control panel (hardware manager).
Thanks in advance!

nimdae:
Are these transfers being done on the same computer? If not, have you installed the latest usb driver for your XP machine?

Llorean:
Try rebooting the Nano into Apple_OS and transferring there, instead of in Disk Mode. For some reason Apple's Disk Mode is unreliable on the Nano 1st generation, but inside the retail firmware is better.

mzenz:
Thanks for the answers guys. As I said, my machine is much newer than the other one, and has WinXP on it, but it is still much slower. The driver of the USB port are part of the drivers package provided by Asus, and is the latest ones and specific to my motherboard. Weird, isn't it?

PaulPosition:
And windowsXP itself, has it been updated to and beyond Service Pack 2?

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