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Problem cloning XP to bigger drive prior to installing XP/7 dual boot
In preparation for setting up a dual boot XP/7 system on my Lenovo laptop I'm using EaseUS Partition Master initially to clone the existing XP drive to a new larger one prior to creating a new partition (on the new drive) for Windows 7. The new drive is connected via a USB caddy for the copying operation.
However the initial copying progress is so unbelievably slow that I'm now very concerned that it's "stalled" - the progress bars aren't moving at all although there is evident disk activity at least on the new drive. Is this operation normally very slow?
It's now 22:30 here in the UK so I'm gong to bed, leaving the cloning to do it's stuff (I hope!). But what if it's still in the "no progress" state in the morning? I'm concerned that, because the source (C) drive was "locked" prior to starting the copy operation, I may not even be able to access that if I simply shut the PC down and disconnect the caddy.
I realise that this is really an XP issue but I hope someone can help here.
Perhaps with a little luck it will all be done by morning and it will just seem like a bad dream
Regards
John