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    Need help transferring pictures from Sony VAIO

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Patty, Jul 20, 2012.

  1. Patty

    Patty Notebook Enthusiast

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    My friend has a Sony VAIO with an i7 processor running Windows 7. She is trying to backup 200 gig of pictures and video to an external 3TB WD Mybook. Her computer has been transferring these pictures for 3 days solid! I thought it should only take a couple of hours, not days.....is this correct? What could be causing this slow down?

    Thanks!
     
    Patty, Jul 20, 2012
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    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    It sounds to me like either external hard drive or PC hard drive is going bad.
     
    ngvuanh, Jul 20, 2012
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  4. The Egyptian

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    Copying big, but few files usually takes much less time than copying small, but many files.

    So for instance, 200 GB of Blu-Ray movie iso images, each 25 GB (8 files) would take much less time than copying 200 GB of images, 5 MB each (40+K files).

    However, it should not take days !

    Could be so many factors. The laptop HDD is dying. The external HDD is dying (which makes it a bad idea to back up to it), the USB cable/port are bad ..... etc.


    Try to copy to other removable media (another USB disk) and see if it makes any difference to isolate the problem.
     
    The Egyptian, Jul 21, 2012
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