Slow new partition creation.
Hello,
Windows XP Home SP3. Disk Director Suite 10.0 Build 2,160.
On a second PC, I have a Western Digital external hard drive. It had 2 - partitions. I have started DDS to create a third partion by taking free space from one of the existing partitions. It has started ok but it says it will take well over 20 hours to move a partition [operation 2 of 3]. I've left it running but surely this is too long. Any thoughts,
Allan.
Hello MudCrab,
The operations took place within Windows, not by rebooting with a bootable Acronis CD. Don't know which is the better way.
The operation has just finished. The log shows the overall time taken for the three operations was 24:42:36.
Resizing the partition took 0:1:23. Moving the partition took 24:39:26. Creating the partition took 0:1:47.
The original partition I resized had four .tib files in it which had a total size of 40.9GB. This no doubt is the reason for the long time taken.
Perhaps it would have been quicker if I had moved the .tib's temporarily to the PC's hard drive, then transferred them back after the new partition had been created. I just don't know.
I hadn't taken a backup image of the drive before repartitioning. Is it always politic to do so?
Thank you for your interest,
Allan.
It's not required to create a backup image of a drive before making partitioning changes, but it is highly recommended. This is because things can go wrong (regardless of the software used). There have been many cases of failed procedures that resulted in data loss because no backup was available.
I would also recommend that you revalidate the image files affected by the changes to make sure they're still okay.