HDD is SATA internal drive.
SSD is M.2
I wouldn't expect any performance issue in that case. I would start up in Safe Mode and test the speed. That may help determine next troubleshooting steps.
Windows 11, copying files between hard drives painfully slow
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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.
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Anonymous
2024-04-12T18:25:22+00:00 HDD is SATA internal drive.
SSD is M.2
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Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2024-04-12T17:11:57+00:00 Same issue.
New computer 12gen i5 CPU 32G Ram.
Trying to copy files from old 500 G HDD to the new SSD drive.
Transfer rate is like 1MB/s or even less.
Anyone have a fix?
How are the drives connected? Internal? USB?
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Anonymous
2024-04-12T16:54:12+00:00 Same issue.
New computer 12gen i5 CPU 32G Ram.
Trying to copy files from old 500 G HDD to the new SSD drive.
Transfer rate is like 1MB/s or even less.
Anyone have a fix?
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Anonymous
2024-04-02T00:26:30+00:00 I have a similar issue. I am trying to copy a large PC OneDrive folder (165 GB) to an external hard drive (Windows 11)
There doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. Some folders (also large =< 80 GB) copy to the external hard drive in a reasonable amount of time. The 165 GB folder seems frozen: No advancement shows up.