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very slow image

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  • Started 4 months ago by krusse5
  • Latest reply from whs
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krusse5
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It took me 18 hours to back upp image of W 7!

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vistamike
vistamike
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krusse5, hi

And.....

Describe the situation fully please

Mike

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whs
whs
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What imaging program did you use. What PC, to where did you image, etc.

18 hours is definitely not correct. I image my whole C partition in 5 minutes.

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gedstar
gedstar
Posts: 521

@whs
Can I ask how you create your Image in 5 mins, I use Acronis 2011 and it takes about 30 mins for 22GB, image size 10GB with compression, mind you I run it from a bootable USB drive and not through Windows.
@krusse5
18 hours to create an image is a seriously long time , how much space is used on the C Drive?

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owen123
owen123
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@gedstar

I imagine that whs uses usb 3

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gedstar
gedstar
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@owen123

Must try that, have USB 3.0 myself, but I normally use me secondary hard drive in the PC to image too.

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whs
whs
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I image from a SSD to an eSata attached disk - or sometimes to an internal HDD. The size of my images is +/- 17GB. I use Macrium for imaging.

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