At 12/16/2011 02:03 PM, David Ross wrote: >People are talking about Easus software, let me strongly warn against it. >It is probably the slowest cloning software out there,
Yeah, can't argue with that! It feels like it's reading 512 bytes at a time or something. > and if it encounters >anything it doesn't like (eg, a single mistake in a single file) it will >hammer away at it for hours. Moreover, it has no "soft" exit strategy, >which means that if you start it and realize immediately that it is going to >take 40 hours, you have to let it finish - if you shut it down in any way >(eg, you yank the drive, or the laptop decides to hibernate) you will lose >100% of your data. 100% of your data...on the destination drive, right? There is no writing happening to the source drive. What are some examples of how other tools handle leaving your destination drive in a meaningful state? >I lost 320 gigabytes with it recently (fortunately I had a backup). Yuck. But you mean, your destination drive, right? Recommended free alternative program? - TK _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
