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Time Required to Clone?

Nov 22, 2006 7:27AM PST

Does anybody have an estimate of how long it would take to clone an existing hard drive onto a fresh drive. The amount of data is around 155GBs a data.
Thanks guys!

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Last time it was a few hours.
Nov 22, 2006 7:44AM PST

But it wasn't an ideal machine and I wonder if the drive was going south.

Bob

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(NT) It varies but somewhere in the range of 30-45 minutes
Nov 22, 2006 10:51PM PST