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Why is it taking days to copy 80gigs from internal to external USBdrive takes days
I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a
USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10 hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress bar. It is also claiming it will take another 2 days 23 hours to complete. It sits on one file for as much as 5 minutes or more before on to the next one. Is this unusually slow. I've set the the external to Optimize Performance in Device Manager. Oh and this is being done on Windows XP and both the internal slave and the external drive are NTFS partitions. Any ideas why it is taking so long? Thanks in advance, Adam |
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Why is it taking days to copy 80gigs from internal to externalUSB drive takes days
On Feb 24, 1:55*am, Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously wrote: I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10 hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress bar. It is also claiming it will take another 2 days 23 hours to complete. It sits on one file for as much as 5 minutes or more before on to the next one. Is this unusually slow. I've set the the external to Optimize Performance in Device Manager. Oh and this is being done on Windows XP and both the internal slave and the external drive are NTFS partitions. Any ideas why it is taking so long? Thanks in advance, Adam Lets see. First the estimation about how fast it is is pretty inaccurate, as XP usually is. Lets assume it can do 80GB in 80 hours. That would be about 300kB/sec, i.e. about 3Mbit/sec. Hmm. USB maybe running only at 11MBit/sec due to missing fast USB drivers or an USB 1.0 port or hub? Arno I once had a laptop that was extremely slow when copying large NTFS compressed files. Uncompressed files were OK. If either drive has 'failing' sectors, it could be doing many retries, and hence very slow Michael www.cnwrecovery.com |
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