Harddrive- copyingdata across from old one

[Jdx]

Hi

Can anyone recommend a faster way to copy data from disk to disk. currently using norton ghost v12 which has a tool to copy from disk to disk, uts on 7% atm after 15mins copying 1tb (spinpoint f1) hard drive to another 1tb (spinpoint f3). I'm rather impatient when it comes loading bars ,I have a couple more f3's that need data copying on to. Damn norton hasnt even showned the estimated remaining time yet.

[Dragonclaw]

RichCopy?

[Jdx]

hmm norton showing 2hrs remaining. the disk Im copying across is pretty full about 800GB+ would rich copy improve copying speed? or am i better looking for disk cloning tools? Prolly give rich copy ago on the other hard drive once nortons finished with this one.

[Dragonclaw]

Worth a try. How about Acronis?

[Jdx]

Thanks, I'll give acronis ago.

[cmd]

Samsung Spinpoint F1 average read = ~90mb/s
from here

(0.07*800)/15/60*1024 = 63.72 mb/s
You're only going to be able to get any program to be able to do it at most ~1/3 faster, provided it is Ghost that is doing things inefficiently..

I'd be interested to know if you do get faster speeds with another program.

[shaithis]

Linux live CD with GParted

[Jdx]

I didn't check the transfers but acronis cloned it slightly quicker then ghost.

Hmm gparted looks intresting might give that ago next month on my new build for windows 7