How long does it takes to clone hdd with Acronis?

I have a 120gb and trying to upgrade to a 320gb. I have been starting the clone with Acronis True Image 2009 for an hour and it only at 15%. Does it takes that long for everyone? I read online that it took 10 minutes or so, but don't know if that was cloning or restoring.

 

It only copy`s the data and compresses it, so 30gb about 15mins ,never did a full HD , I use Acronis True Image 10.

EDIT : Also your notebook performance will make a big difference on how long it takes.

 

10 minutes is far too quick for a big HDD. I usually leave my cloning running overnight.

Assuming you are on a USB interface and there is a write transfer rate of 20MB/s, then that is 1200MB = 1.2GB / minute, so 120GB = 100 minutes.

However, as already noted, the overall system can make a big difference. Your old HDD may struggle to deliver data at 20MB/s and system hardware may mean that the computer is first reading a block of data then writing it, which would double the overall time. Empty space gets compressed, but I would presume that your existing HDD is quite full.

Perhaps you can clarify your hardware config and advise the time it actually took.

John

 

Complete cloning of my almost full with thousands of files 250GB 4 partitioned HDD took good 6 hours, where almost half of the time was for creating partitions on the new HDD.

 

The specs are in my sig. The Dell XPS M1530.

 

NVM. Cloned it and took a nap. Probably 3+ hours or so. Had to use the Windows Vista recovery cd to fix start-up, and Partition Manager to merged C: with the extra 200gb partition. Couldn't use Acronis Disk Director 10 due to an error when merging the two partitions.

 

I'm running on two+ hours here with 0% progress. The USB drive (320GB) is showing an irregular read/write activity (via the red-greed LED), but that's my only indication that anything might actually be happening.
I'm about ready to yank the plug on her, but I'm afraid of screwing up the original drive.
Apricorn Clone EZ couldn't even seem to find the new drive upon reboot during the clone initialization , so I couldn't get anywhere with that software.

-This sucks.

 

Welpp...

Good thing I didn't jump the gun. I just found this (by Acronis) :
http://kb.acronis.com/content/1694

 

Good find!

 

yes, good find Psychokitty, you really dont want to stop such a process before its finished. i was resizing a 320GB disk partition with Partition Manager yesterday and it showed no progess for nearly 10 mins. luckily i left it as the progress bar seemed to 'stick' and would only update every few mins after (actually took 5 hours in the end)

 

I use Acronis as well. One time I stopped the computer in the middle of the process as I believed the program had frozen. I was wrong and ended up wasting a couple hours since I had to start over.

I clone drives regularly. A 320GB half full with tons of small files takes me 6 hours+ on a Dell 1520.

 

I too have used Acronis and also the Acronis clone Seagate's Diskwizard to clone notebook hard drives (and their O/S) to new HD's.

Some notebooks go to sleep even when not booted up to an O/S and I thought that I would not be able to clone their dying HD's to a new one because the computer would sleep in the middle of the clone (during the reboot). I even tried to keep the computer awake by pressing the shift or space button every 5 minutes or so, but they would still go to sleep.

After I had started/restarted this process a few times, I pressed the power button on the 'sleeping' computer (Acer TravelMate) and although the screen did not 'wake up', the internal and the external USB HD lights started working again.

After a few hours (on one notebook I had to 'wake' it up 3 or 4 times), the cloned drive actually was cloned properly!

So now, as long as the HD lights are active, I always leave cloning to continue until there is no activity at all and/or the computer flashes 'shut down your computer now'.

 

I use Acronis and it's pretty nippy at cloning drives. Of course, I don't use USB but eSATA with a docking station - about 4 times faster. Which reminds me - must do a clone of my boot disk now that I've upgraded to Win7. Should take about 20 min.