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TI-10 / Windows 7 - One day, 2 Hrs ETA to create partition image?????

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Just installed Windows 7, then purchased upgrade to True Image 2010 for compatibility. I tried an initial backup of the C drive, but when it got to step 2, "Creating Partition Image", the time remaining came up as 1 day, 2 hours. What the heck? It's only trying to back up about 100GB from my C drive to my 600GB internal M drive. This can't possibly be right, can it?

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The rough estimate for backup is 1 to 1.5min per Gb. If you're doing the backup from within Windows, try it from the bootable Rescue CD. How long did you let the process run for? The initial time estimate is way way off. Wait until at least 5 minutes into the process.

Well, after running for over 4 hours now, it's still only 11% finished and saying 1 day and 8 hours to finish. Not too good.

This sounds as though it is either performing a sector by sector image or it is finding disk problems.

Make sure no in the background defrag or auto antivirus check is running.

Run chkdsk /r on all drives partitions.

If you are imaging your system drive, checkdisk will only work on reboot on this partition as it needs to have the OS dismounted.

I am trying to back up my system drive. But, wouldn't True Image tell me it needed to dismount the partition and require a reboot?

I think it may be a drive problem. I ran a diagnostic on the drive and S.M.A.R.T. returned a good deal of reallocated segments. The WD drive is still under warranty, so I got an RMA. Hope that was the problem.

I think it may be a drive problem. I ran a diagnostic on the drive and S.M.A.R.T. returned a good deal of reallocated segments. The WD drive is still under warranty, so I got an RMA. Hope that was the problem.

You're probably correct about the drive problem. If the drive was defective then it would continually try and retry to write to sectors that were defective. This would explain the extraordinarily long backup times.

This proves once again how picky True Image with hardware - and sometimes for good reason. What Windows will happily ignore, True Image will give some kind of indication of impending trouble.