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Disk Clone operation takes whole night

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I have an older version of Acronis True Image. I use it to make image backups of my entire hard drive. The machine is a Thinkpad T43 with an extra disk drive in side bay. The two disks are identical 150 GM Samsung IDE (PATA) models.

The backup works reliably and there are no problems except the slooooooooooooow speed.
I believe that the transfer rate of the drive would allow the 150 GB to be copied in much less than 8 hours!

Anyone has any insights?
Are newer versions any better?

Is Disk Director any different (I have an older copy of it too - never understood why the 2 products are sold by the same company with nearly identical capabilities as far as cloning is concerned).

The operating system is Windows XP, the file system is NTFS (I thought it did not matter - image copy does not use operating system, but executes as a standalone program on the "bare metal" copying partitions sector by sector from one disk to another).

Witold

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Witold,
Perhaps it would help if you identified the specific version and build of TrueImage you are using.

Had it always been this slow or is this a new development?

Be careful in your use to the term "clone " as it can be confusing to the people attempting to respond. TrueImageHome offers two methods of disk copying or creating a duplicate disk.

One option is the specific "clone" option listed in inside the program menu. A more popular method of create a backup and then restore the backup onto a current or brand new disk. From your description, it sounds like you did use the "clone" feature. Is that correct?

The length of time is not normal. Have you recently checked both disks for drive errors?
Chkdsk x: /R
(x=actual drive letter)
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