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    Windows Easy Transfer -- 12 hours for 30 gigs?????

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vilmosz, Oct 1, 2010.

  1. vilmosz

    vilmosz Notebook Consultant

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    I'm migrating my xp system to windows 7 professional and have already copied all my files to an external drive; I'm using windows easy transfer in hopes I won't have to reinstall all of my apps -- but it's indicating it will take 12 hours! This doesn't sound right. I checked my Task Manager and the app seems to be running, but that is slow as molasses. Slower. I'm copying to a usb powered 640gb external drive. My lappy is of course plugged into the wall socket. What gives?
     
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  2. MidnightSun

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    Time estimates for these sort of things can often be wildly off. 30 GBs is a lot of data and programs, so you'll just have to be patient.
     
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    vilmosz Notebook Consultant

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    It doesn't seem like that much data -- dragging and dropping, the files can be moved in around a half an hour. I'm sure Easy Transfer does something more complicated than that, but still -- does seem like a lot of time. I'll be patient. Let me check. Nope, still transferring. Let me check again. Still transferring. Let me check one more time.....
    :D
     
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  4. warakawa

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    it's called "windows easy transfer" not "windows fast transfer"...
     
    warakawa, Oct 1, 2010
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    It's a pretty normal time. Copying a single 30GB file over USB 2.0 should take approx 20min at 25MB/s. However copying thousands of small files totaling 30GB could take hours. There is quite a substantial overhead for setting up a file to be transfered.
     
    mythos1453, Oct 1, 2010
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