Restoring partition extremely slow?
I used TI 10 to make a full partition backup of a 128GB SSD before upgrading the drive firmware. After the firmware upgrade there seemed to be a lot of weird file errors on the drive so naturally I went to restore the backup. My problem is that it seems to be taking an incredibly long time to restore a 128GB partition, especially given that it had less than 50GB of data on it. I'm sitting watching the recovery process at the moment and it's currently done just a few percent of the process and is estimating 9 hours until it finishes. The estimate has been as low as 6 hours and as high as 14 hours in the past few minutes as well. The first time I tried to restore it, it went relatively quickly until the progress bar was about a third of the way along, then seemed to hang there while the estimated recovery time rapidly increased to almost 2 days. What the hell is going on here? It shouldn't take more than 2 hours to recover this much data (as I type this, the estimated time has just jumped to 12 hours and the progress bar has not moved for some time).
I really need this sorted as quickly as possible and didn't expect to have any trouble restoring the backup I made. I'm restoring the backup from another SATA drive in the same PC to the 128GB SSD, so there should be no USB/network related speed problems, just a straight disk-to-disk transfer.
I used another bootable disk to format the target drive and then went back to the ATI boot CD and tried restoring in "files and folders" mode this time, targetting the newly formatted drive. This appears to be working, but is outrageously slow (~30 minutes for a few hundred MB) and it isn't showing me any progress information at all - the progress bar is not moving at all and there is no estimated completion time. What is causing the transfer speeds to be so ridiculously slow?
For anyone else with the same problem, what I eventually ended up doing was formatting the SSD, installing Win 7, booting the new install, installing ATI 2010 and then extracting the files from the .tib file (which actually proceeded at a sensible speed this time) to another disk. Then I used a copy of UBCD to format the SSD again, copy the extracted files back over to the new partition on the SSD, rebooted and used the Win 7 DVD to fix the expected boot errors.
It appears that the ATI CD has some problem with the hardware in my system (ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard, Intel X58 chipset), because the transfer speeds in the CD environment were abysmal, yet inside Windows I had no problems.