Hey all,
I'm trying to copy a partition from one drive to another. I used gparted the first time to do this and it took maybe an hour for the whole drive. Unfortunately due to the way vista handles drives, this didnt work. So since i wasnt copying a boot drive i decided to just format the drive in vista and then copy the files across using windows explorer. But its been close to an hour and its only about half way done with a single partition and it saying 90 minutes more to copy the rest.
why is it so much slower copying files in windows as opposed to using something like gparted or partition magic? i've noticed this in win98, win2000 and xp. So its not just something in vista.
Is there a faster way to simply copy files from one partition to another?
I'm trying to copy a partition from one drive to another. I used gparted the first time to do this and it took maybe an hour for the whole drive. Unfortunately due to the way vista handles drives, this didnt work. So since i wasnt copying a boot drive i decided to just format the drive in vista and then copy the files across using windows explorer. But its been close to an hour and its only about half way done with a single partition and it saying 90 minutes more to copy the rest.
why is it so much slower copying files in windows as opposed to using something like gparted or partition magic? i've noticed this in win98, win2000 and xp. So its not just something in vista.
Is there a faster way to simply copy files from one partition to another?