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Making windows backup very slow before backup even starts

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always was able to create images of my win10 quite fast with the boot cd. However since 1 month, when I start from my boot cd, select make new backup, select the source (win partition) and then the destination and backup name and click next (or proceed) it takes like a few minutes before proceeding to the next step, and then again I have to wait several minutes before I can actually start making the image (which only takes 8 minutes), but the whole process before creating the image takes about the smae time.

 

This is only since 1 month, before the preceeding steps went quite fast, anyone any idea what causes this delay?

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Daniel, welcome to these public User Forums.

When making any backups using the Acronis bootable media, there is no involvement with any Windows processes etc for obvious reasons, so that really just leaves the file system on the drive being backed up.

Acronis will check the drive (and any other drives connected at that time) for any issues before going ahead with the backup process.

I would recommend ensuring that any additional drives are disconnected, and that you run CHKDSK /F against your source and destination drives for completeness.

Steve Smith wrote:

See webpage: Disk Error Checking: How to run chkdsk in Windows 10n

no errors on disk checking,

chkdsk /f C: doesn t work I get an error 

Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or
the disk may be locked by another process.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode
and make sure the disk is unlocked.

I still don't get it, a onth ago making a backup in the same way went very fast, now the whole process after clicking proceed when I have selected a destination and filename takes so much time 

I still don't get it, a onth ago making a backup in the same way went very fast, now the whole process after clicking proceed when I have selected a destination and filename takes so much time

 

Daniel, there are really only a few potential causes for this type of problem, especially given you are making your backups outside of Windows by using the rescue media to boot the computer.

This could be a computer memory issue or else it could be a disk drive issue.  For the former you would need to run memory diagnostics and for the latter, use the disk diagnostic tools provided by your disk manufacturer to test the whole drive surface and mechanism.

Dedicated diagnostic utilities from the disk manufacturers take the longest time to complete the checks, but provide the most accurate methods of checking whether the disk is good or needs replacement:

 - Western Digital drives: Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows

 - Seagate disks: SeaTools for Windows

 - HGST disks: HGST Windows Drive Fitness Test (WinDFT)

 - Intel SSDs: Intel Solid State Drive Toolbox

 - Samsung drives: Samsung Magician

 - ADATA drives: ADATA SSD ToolBox

 - Kingston SSDs: Kingston SSD Toolbox, Kingston SSD Manager

 - Transcend SSDs: Transcend SSD Scope

 - Silicon Power disks: SP ToolBox

 - Toshiba disks: Toshiba PC Diagnostic Tool Utility

For the memory diagnostic take a look at the Hiren's Boot CD option which is an ISO image you can download and boot from and which includes various diagnostic tools

looks like if it worked, I ran the Samsung Magician  and made a backup this morning which went very fast.

 

Thanks for the help!

Glad to hear the backup went much faster - thank you for the feedback.