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Slow harddrive copy
I'm replacing my Western Digital 40GB UltraATA with a Seagate 7200.7 80GB
UltraATA. I put the Seagate on IDE controller 1 master and the WD on Controller 2 master and booted the machine using Seagate's DiscWizard. Format went fine but the copy was ridiculously slow. After an hour I only got through 12% of 31GBs copied. Approx 8+ hours estimate for the whole 31GB?? That can't be right can it? For UltraATA? Machine is a 1Ghz Dell Dimension 4100. |
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Jason wrote:
I'm replacing my Western Digital 40GB UltraATA with a Seagate 7200.7 80GB UltraATA. I put the Seagate on IDE controller 1 master and the WD on Controller 2 master and booted the machine using Seagate's DiscWizard. Format went fine but the copy was ridiculously slow. After an hour I only got through 12% of 31GBs copied. Approx 8+ hours estimate for the whole 31GB?? That can't be right can it? For UltraATA? Machine is a 1Ghz Dell Dimension 4100. I just replaced an old WD drive with the same ST380013A you used. With it as slave on IDE0 and my old WD AC313000R as master, I copied only about 4GB from the old 8GB "C" partition to a new 31GB partition on the new drive. It took a good hour. DiskWizard is an amazing program, but it is slow. It does a "file for file" copy not a "bit for bit" ghost. Don't know why it's so slow, but it does a good job. I've used xxcopy before, and it seems to take about the same ammount of time. You have to repeat the xxcopy to pick up any files Windows has in use. Disk Wizard doesn't have this problem. I'm not sure it works at ATA100. It spent a lot of time "preparing to copy files", whatever that is. I thought it might get confused, as I made three partitions on the new drive, and copied only the first of four partitions on the old drive to the first partition on the new. 4GB in one hour is about equal to your 12% of 31GB. Virg Wall -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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"V W Wall" wrote in message
... I just replaced an old WD drive with the same ST380013A you used. With it as slave on IDE0 and my old WD AC313000R as master, I copied only about 4GB from the old 8GB "C" partition to a new 31GB partition on the new drive. It took a good hour. DiskWizard is an amazing program, but it is slow. It does a "file for file" copy not a "bit for bit" ghost. Don't know why it's so slow, but it does a good job. Thanks Virg. I wasn't sure if maybe I hooked something up wrong or something was broken. What i'll do is start the DiscWizard copy when I go to sleep and let it run overnight. |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:06:19 GMT, "Jason" wrote:
using Seagate's DiscWizard. Format went fine but the copy was ridiculously slow. After an hour I only got through 12% of 31GBs copied. Approx 8+ hours estimate for the whole 31GB?? That can't be right can it? For UltraATA? Machine is a 1Ghz .. thats looks like that program works with Dos base (16bit) legacy basic chipset driver - thats why is so slow! Why you do not copy all files you can in WIN (32bit+DMA+all chipset drivers) from one disk to another & than only clone with that program the OS? -- Regards, SPAJKY & visit - http://www.spajky.iscyber.com Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## |
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Spajky wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:06:19 GMT, "Jason" wrote: using Seagate's DiscWizard. Format went fine but the copy was ridiculously slow. After an hour I only got through 12% of 31GBs copied. Approx 8+ hours estimate for the whole 31GB?? That can't be right can it? For UltraATA? Machine is a 1Ghz .. thats looks like that program works with Dos base (16bit) legacy basic chipset driver - thats why is so slow! Why you do not copy all files you can in WIN (32bit+DMA+all chipset drivers) from one disk to another & than only clone with that program the OS? You really need a copy program to keep all the long file names intact. That is essentially what xxcopy /clone does. You have to set up the partitions, and format manually. Then you need to set the disk you copied to have an active primmary partition before it's bootable. DiskWizard does all that automatically, but it is slow. Virg Wall -- Regards, SPAJKY & visit - http://www.spajky.iscyber.com Celly-III OC-ed,"Tualatin on BX-Slot1-MoBo!" E-mail AntiSpam: remove ## -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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Make sure you have "DMA if available" setting on in your Device manager's -
IDE channels properties... "V W Wall" wrote in message ... Jason wrote: I'm replacing my Western Digital 40GB UltraATA with a Seagate 7200.7 80GB UltraATA. I put the Seagate on IDE controller 1 master and the WD on Controller 2 master and booted the machine using Seagate's DiscWizard. Format went fine but the copy was ridiculously slow. After an hour I only got through 12% of 31GBs copied. Approx 8+ hours estimate for the whole 31GB?? That can't be right can it? For UltraATA? Machine is a 1Ghz Dell Dimension 4100. I just replaced an old WD drive with the same ST380013A you used. With it as slave on IDE0 and my old WD AC313000R as master, I copied only about 4GB from the old 8GB "C" partition to a new 31GB partition on the new drive. It took a good hour. DiskWizard is an amazing program, but it is slow. It does a "file for file" copy not a "bit for bit" ghost. Don't know why it's so slow, but it does a good job. I've used xxcopy before, and it seems to take about the same ammount of time. You have to repeat the xxcopy to pick up any files Windows has in use. Disk Wizard doesn't have this problem. I'm not sure it works at ATA100. It spent a lot of time "preparing to copy files", whatever that is. I thought it might get confused, as I made three partitions on the new drive, and copied only the first of four partitions on the old drive to the first partition on the new. 4GB in one hour is about equal to your 12% of 31GB. Virg Wall -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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