shai Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 How much longer is this going to take? Because after this I need to do a 30+ hour back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Depends on the size, speed and usage of your hard disks? You can always run defrag first, to speed it up, but that generally takes half a day by itself :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 After 14 hours it got to just under a quarter, then it stopped when someone made it go to sleep. I think i'll just use Ubuntu to copy the partitions instead, and it will probably be 10x as fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE AQIB Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Well backup is a necessary thing..Even my mom had the same problem..I fragment rarely..Why you using security essentials??It sucks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 17, 2013 Author Share Posted December 17, 2013 Well backup is a necessary thing..Even my mom had the same problem..I fragment rarely..Why you using security essentials??It sucks..It was the only one I could find that was free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feda Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I use avast! free and Malwarebytes, it's doing a great job. MS Security Essentials sucks, Microsoft itself said that but in different words obviously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I have had no problems with MSE on 2 computers. Used it for around 3-4 years. I shouldn't take an hour to scan 8k files. Must be slow/old hdd, or maybe it is failing?How big (gigabyte) is the hdd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 OK, so now the backup software that comes with Windows isn't even backing up all the files I tell it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 I have had no problems with MSE on 2 computers. Used it for around 3-4 years. I shouldn't take an hour to scan 8k files. Must be slow/old hdd, or maybe it is failing?How big (gigabyte) is the hdd?It is a 250GB laptop hard drive, 268,340 files totaling 128GB on drive C and 14,740 files on drive D totaling 33.9GB. I also have Ubuntu installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE AQIB Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I use paragon backup..1000gb hd..(500 x2harddisk)7 partitions.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 I use paragon backup..1000gb hd..(500 x2harddisk)7 partitions..I downloaded that one yesterday as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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