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Image goes from 15 mins to 4 hours

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I am imaging to an external USB 3.0 1TB HDD under Windows 8.1 64bit. An image on my approximately 40% full 240gb SSD normally takes 15-20 mins with verification. This morning it is taking about 4 hours so I stopped it, deleted previous images from the external drive, emptied the Recycle bin and started again, same result. Help please.

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I just had a WD passport 2 tb go bad. Would not format Too many bad sectors. Might be something to check.

Thank you for your reply Grover. I have two external USB 3.0 HDD's, I checked both, all OK, I formatted one and tried again, still a 4 hour image projected. I deleted TI 2014, rebooted and installed again. Now working perfectly, back to 15 mins for 90gb image and 6 minutes for validation.
Curiouser and curiouser.

Just a wild guess. Could the backup sector by sector option have been selected by accident?

Thank you Paul but in all the years I have been running TI I have never run a sector-by-sector image. Now it is re-installed it is working well.

Peter