Ghost takes forever why ?

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Dave Hau

-keevill- said:
I use Norton Ghost regularly but on this occasion when I try to clone a
partition from 1 hard disk onto another hard disk in the same machine it
takes hours .The partition is only 25 GB. I would expect this to be
completed in 10 mins or so .I have tried from the boot up disk and also from
the ghost prog in the Win2K os.
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If you're cloning two disks on the same IDE channel (from master to slave or
vice versa) it could take longer because you cannot simultaneously access
both drives concurrently on the same IDE channel.

Regards,
Dave
 
I use Norton Ghost regularly but on this occasion when I try to clone a
partition from 1 hard disk onto another hard disk in the same machine it
takes hours .The partition is only 25 GB. I would expect this to be
completed in 10 mins or so .I have tried from the boot up disk and also from
the ghost prog in the Win2K os.
 
-keevill- said:
I use Norton Ghost regularly but on this occasion when I try to clone a
partition from 1 hard disk onto another hard disk in the same machine it
takes hours .The partition is only 25 GB. I would expect this to be
completed in 10 mins or so .I have tried from the boot up disk and also from
the ghost prog in the Win2K os.
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Bad IDE cable?

Missing DOS drivers/parameters for IDE controller card?
 
CWatters said:
Drive going bad?
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I don't know if this is a further clue but I used partition Magic to
create/reorganise the petitions on the 80 Gigabytes Hard Dr. prior to using
Norton ghost. This also took a long time/about two hours!
 
I don't know if this is a further clue but I used partition Magic to
create/reorganise the petitions on the 80 Gigabytes Hard Dr. prior
to using Norton ghost. This also took a long time/about two hours!
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Try some other basic ops like chkdisk and see if that takes a long time too.
 
-keevill- said:
chkdsk took about 3 mins.
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That rules out a bad cable or drive going bad
if the system is only slow using ghost and PM.

Maybe the partition tables have dubious data
in them and thats confusing both of them.

How is that drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS ?
 
Rod said:
That rules out a bad cable or drive going bad
if the system is only slow using ghost and PM.

Maybe the partition tables have dubious data
in them and thats confusing both of them.

How is that drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS ?
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FAT32 for both drives.
The larger one was subjected to the PQmagic treatment changing from one
large 80GB partition to two small ones, 20GB and 60GB. As I said, this
operation took several hours. Then, when using Norton ghost to copy the
partition from 820GB hard disk over onto the newly created 20GB partition on
the larger disk, this took about four hours. I did the process twice and on
both occasions, it took this time. Both hard drives are on a single IDE
cable. The larger disk being the slave.
 
FAT32 for both drives.
The larger one was subjected to the PQmagic treatment changing from one
large 80GB partition to two small ones, 20GB and 60GB. As I said, this
operation took several hours. Then, when using Norton ghost to copy the
partition from 820GB hard disk over onto the newly created 20GB partition on
the larger disk, this took about four hours. I did the process twice and on
both occasions, it took this time. Both hard drives are on a single IDE
cable. The larger disk being the slave.
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Have you ever done ghost images or cloning on that
particular PC prior to that ? How fast did those go ?

I have seen some motherboard chipsets work pretty slowly
with both ghost and drive image. It appears to be the chipset.
 
Rod said:
Have you ever done ghost images or cloning on that
particular PC prior to that ? How fast did those go ?

I have seen some motherboard chipsets work pretty slowly
with both ghost and drive image. It appears to be the chipset.
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actually I haven't used it on this machine before so I will try Drive Image
as an experiment when I am back at that machine in a few days. Seems like
the chipset could be the problem.
Thx,
 
-keevill- said:
I don't know if this is a further clue but I used partition Magic to
create/reorganise the petitions on the 80 Gigabytes Hard Dr. prior to using
Norton ghost. This also took a long time/about two hours!
Click to expand...

Partition Magic can take a long time to do certain operations (eg. to extend
a partition "upwards").
 
Rod Speed said:
Have you ever done ghost images or cloning on that
particular PC prior to that ? How fast did those go ?

I have seen some motherboard chipsets work pretty slowly
with both ghost and drive image. It appears to be the chipset.
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Could also be the bios version. I had an Abit BE6-II v1 mobo once (440BX
chipset) that ran very slow, though not nearly as slow as Keevill describes,
on one bios and twice as fast on another. Both drives were on the on-board
Highpoint HPT366 controller, not the chipset-based IDE controller.
 
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