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Recovering entire harddisk from bootable media

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Dear all,

I created a bootable media (32GB USBstick) With this stick i made an entire disk backup of a Windows 7 system. There is 32 GB in use of the C: partition.

After this i want to recover this image to another computer with the same hardware configuration.

The problem is that this takes more then one hour. But when i copy the image to my external HD (500GB) and recover from that it only takes 8 minutes! I think that it's slow now beacause there is a lot of "swapping"

My question: do you think my 32gb USB stick is just to small for the amount of data? Will a 64Gb stick work better?

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I don't understand. You said you created created a bootable media (the ATI Rescue Media?) on a 32 GB flash drive.
But then you seem to say that you also stored the backup on that same flash drive?
Is that correct?

I will try to explain:

I installed acronis true image on PC-A , i createted a resque media.
I boot PC-B with this USB stick and made a backup
Then i boot PC-C with this usb stick and restore

Where is the backup image?

Okay, so if I understand you, you want to know why it was faster restoring the backup image from an external HD than it was from the USB flash drive. I believe external hard drives have faster real-world performance than many USB flash drives. Many USB flash drives are actually pretty slow at reading/transferring a lot of data.

I think you're right.
But im still wondering what happens when i use a 64gb usb flash drive.
My image is around 12GB compressed, and it becomes 32GB when i recover it to a harddrive. There might be just not enough space for extracting/swapping?
I think im just gonna try it out and let you know :)

In the meantime, every comment on this subject is welcome!

The issue is that flash drives simply aren't fast. I don't think a larger flash drive will make much difference, unless it's significantly faster.

It will still be slower than a good external HD at volume transfer.

There are large speed differences between various flash drives. Some models are much faster than others. I have several that are quite slow, including a relatively recent Duracell model. I also have a Sony Microvault which is much faster.