Ghost 14 Dead Slow on one system NIce and Fast on another

I have two systems, both have 2 x SataII drives 150gbyte C drive, 120gbyte D drive in Each system.

Both systems have identical applications, in fact, they both occupy 15gbyte space on their C drives.

 

System A  - is Gigabyte motherboard.

System B - is an Asus

 

Both no much older than 3 months.

 

If system A is backed up, it takes 40 minutes.

If system B is backed up, it takes 7 minutes.

 

 I cannot fathom out why there is such a vast difference in times .

Both system have AMD 5200+, and both are XP32bit each with 3gbyte memory.

 

I have even defragged both  systems drives (although it did not really require it in both cases).

 

Does anyone know why this is the case - can anyone at all assist.

 

Many thanks in advance

John Cooper