DD works 9 hours. Is it normal?

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I did basic disk clone and deleted a volume on the target disk. After this my W7 shut down and started doing something before loading back (black/white screen). It showed 1% a 5-10 minutes progress. After a while the screen went out (seems due to power saving set up). The HDD works permanently but I can't obviously see what is the progress. Has anybody any idea if I shell stop it or wait longer? And if longer than how much longer....

Calculating the length we can multiply 5-10 min by 100% we can see that it must last about 8-17 hours. The HDD volume I copy is about 500 GB and it must be cloned proportionally to 60 GB SSD volume.

My question as I said is shall I wait longer and how much longer.... Thanks a lot for your ideas, advises, instructions :)

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 03:17
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Depending on the amount of data being moved and a number of other factors, it can take a long time. Some users have had to wait an extremely long time for it to finish.

Since you are cloning, you could probably abort it and be safe. However, if DD is performing any operations that could result in data loss (resizing a partition, merging or splitting, etc.), it's strongly recommended to let it continue if there is any sign of activity. This is because these operations usually result in a completely corrupted drive if aborted.

It normally shouldn't take that long to copy less than 60GB of data. Even figuring a slow 1GB per minute it would only take an hour.

Sat, 04/02/2011 - 05:21