Re: Long Ghosting Time

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Rob,

I don't know any switch of Ghost that will speed up the process. Also, if it is there, it would depend on the Ghost software
version. IIRC, there were too many changes between v8 and v9, for example.

Ghost does not know anything about EWF or the partition content it is reading or writing.
What is the size of result GHO file in your test? I am certain that with 256-512M it won't take more than a few minutes. Unless you
hardware media is extremely slow and damaged. Did you check it with.. Disk Checker or something like that? Try use chkdsk on it to
see if anything is wrong there.


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KM, BSquare Corp.


> By copying time I mean the actual ghosting process, so capturing the image
> and copying it to a new drive. The master contains around 400Mb of data when
> sealed, but still takes 40 mins to copy. If the disk was full of data I would
> understand, but there's 400Mb of data in a 15Gb drive space and a second
> partition of 45Gb (for EWF overlay data) that should be empty at the time of
> cloning (EWF is disabled until post clone). It is ghost performing slowly
> because the EWF partition is acting a bit strange, or is it down to the fact
> that the EWF is full of data, possibly something to do with the way that EWF
> maps its data?
>
> Failing that are there any switches that I can use to put in Ghost that will
> speed things along a bit?
>
> Thanks.


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