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Justed wasted 10 hours cloning a drive

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So I used True Image Professional 2010 to clone a 1TB drive to another 1TB drive. It estimated to take 5 hours but it ended up taking 10 hours. So I left it alone to run. When I came back to my computer 10 hours later, the log says the operation was canceled at the very end because I was supposed to click a button to reboot within a 10 minutes window at the end of the clone operation. Is it just me but this does not make sense.

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Hello blade117runner,

We're really sorry for the difficulties you've experienced with Acronis True Image.

Let me assist you.

As I understand, you've tried to clone your drives within Windows environment, correct? If so, I may recommend you to repeat the operation, but at this time using a bootable CD.

The thing is that some processes within Windows may prevent True Image from working properly. Moreover, reboot will be required anyway. Acronis Bootable CD is based on Linux, so nothing will interfere with the cloning process.

You can find the information on how to create a bootable CD at the Chapter 15 of the User's Guide. Additionally, you can download a bootable media in ISO format from your account on our web site.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you

BladeRunner! I had the same problems, but get this...with an 80GB laptop drive! I fell asleep and five hours later it was STILL going to take "2 hours" to complete. Two hours later it still had 33% to go!!!!!!!!

I posted my frustration and these 'great people' DELETED MY POST.

I am running Windows 7 x64. The cloning is for one external USB drive to another external drive. I have no problems that reboot is required to finish an operation but IMHO you just don't cancel an operation because a reboot is not performed within a specified amount of time. It was running unattended in this case but I could be running some important programs and doing some work that I cannot reboot my computer at that moment.

Thank you for suggestion but I don't think cloning one external drive to another should require a bootable CD to perform. Since my external drive just has data, I am just going to do a normal files copy. It probably will rake much longer than 10 hours, lots of data :-) Please pass along my comments about rebooting for cloning to your developers. Thanks.

I'm curious as to how long it will take. There is a good chance the speed will by throttled by the USB connection and it won't make much difference what you use to do the copy. IMO, it is meaningless to use any reported time estimates given by TI for a comparison.

You may want to consider Microsoft SyncToy for the file copying. I find it works quite well - designed for large volume data file manipulation.