I’m currently trying to migrate my parents’ computer to Windows 7 (from Windows XP).
Initially, I backed up their hard drive to a DriveImage XML image on an external hard drive. I now realise I should have created a bootable copy of their hard drive on the external drive, because I need to boot their old system to extract some details that I can’t get from the files alone.
I’m attempting to restore the image to another external drive. It’s been going for 20 minutes, and it’s only 2% complete.
Their original hard drive had a capacity of 290 GB, but was less than 10% full. I backed it up to a FireWire 400/USB 2 external drive. I’m attempting to restore that to a FireWire 800 drive. The FireWire 800 drive is plugged into their computer, and the FireWire 400 drive is plugged into the FireWire 800 drive.
I know they‘re external drives, so they’re not going to be super-fast, but at this rate it’ll take 20 hours to restore the image, and that doesn’t seem right.
Answer
It’s just slow. It was faster on my MacBook Pro than it was on my Mac mini.
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