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. Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-08-15T01:48:51+00:00

    Did you uninstall or disable OneDrive to be sure that's not the cause of the delays?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-10T15:11:55+00:00

    I am copying from a "local" OneDrive folder to a hard drive. These files have not been accessed for a year or two. Copy speed is average 3-5 MB/second.
    I used Task Manager to view Wi-Fi usage (nothing but the copy running) and it is sending less than 1 Mbps but receiving about 50 Mbps So the problem is OneDrive having to sync with the cloud!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-05T00:27:54+00:00

    Hello,

    Am having the same issue.... using win 11. now looking at files and see they are stored in the cloud... just opened properties of the folder and selected always keep on this computer. Think the problem may be that the files i think are stored on the computer are not... have to be downloaded from cloud to copy to hard drive...

    hope this helps

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-12T19:45:49+00:00

    Tried Safe Mode. Same behavior. Transfers a few megabytes then pauses.

    For laughs also used a new cable on the HDD and plugged into a different connector. No change.

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