Windows 11, copying files between hard drives painfully slow

Anonymous
2023-11-07T14:37:48+00:00

Has anyone else experiencing extremely long times for copying one hard drive to another?

I'm trying to copy all the files from a standard 3.5" hard drive to an SSD.

It's almost 1TB of data but the speeds continuosly drop to less than 1MB/s when in safe mode, as running the PC in it's normal mode stalled the copying process with it showing 0KB/s.

I am on the latest version of Windows and with the newest updates with the apparent bug fix.

I am on day 3 of copying these files.

I have tried all the "fixes" that show up on Google and both hard drives have "full control" by myself/all users.

Hoping someone can help.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-22T23:41:05+00:00

    System Restore corrupting my system was why I reinstalled Win11 in the first place. I am none too pleased with Microsoft right now. I'm retired, and I like playing computer games, otherwise I would just ditch this P.O.S. operating system and use Linux. Copying and pasting files in Linux takes seconds, unlike WinDoze's 19 hour estimate. SMH I am so frustrated and pissed off.

    Edit: Problem solved. My system seemed to get worse every time I rebooted. While linux worked at first, that didn't last long. To make a long story short, it turned out that my SATA cable was slowly dying. Used a new SATA cable, and no more problem. My apologies for any disparaging remarks I may have made about Microsoft. haha

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-22T22:34:12+00:00

    I have just retired after 25 years in IT in aerospace. Its so bad especially trying a system restore 90% fails. I thought it was me, seem to re-install so much (murder for relicensing software every build) Its slightly better than NT4 :-). I have started using Tera copy its faster and reliable. I have noticed more and more software having a linux back end. I used to work with Unix years ago and we hardly went down. Software seems to be rushed out these days not a lot of testing before release. Think that's what Sundays are for re-installing windows 11 lol

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