bbbl67 wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote

>>> Ooh, I like this XXClone, it seems to be exactly
>>> something I've been looking for for a long long time.

>> One downside with it is that its a hell of a lot slower to clone a drive than TI.

>> Yeah, but one real downside of that capability is that since
>> its done at the file level, its much slower to clone a drive.

> Interestingly, it's not.

Fraid it is.

> I've just received the new hard drive, and I have
> begun the experiments both with BING and XXClone.

I was talking about TI, not BING.

> As Jack said, BING does see the USB drive. But
> XXClone is blowing away BING, hands down, in speed.

I've never liked BING, for that reason.

> So far I'm cloning the laptop's restore partition, which is pretty small, only
> 4GB or so. It's taking XXClone only about 15-20 minutes to copy that over USB,

Thats a hell of a long time for 4GB.

> but it was barely budging under BING. I'd hate to try to
> clone the main 90GB Windows system partition with BING.

Yeah, thats the reason I dont use it, its a steaming turd in a number of areas.

> I don't know why it's so much slower. Maybe because BING copies
> it at the very low level, sector-by-sector, it may be running into USB
> protocol overhead, whereas XXClone might avoid the low-level overhead?

Maybe, but if it is doing it sector by sector, its a steaming turd by definition.

> Maybe because the restore partition is FAT32 rather than NTFS, BING is slower?

You'd have to test that possibility.

> Maybe because USB boots up at the slower USB 1.1 speeds while
> in BIOS, and only kicks into full USB 2.0 speeds after Windows has
> loaded? It could be any combination of those things, I imagine.

And TI leaves XXCOPY for dead speed wise, which is why I use it.

Ed Light wrote:
> bbbl67 wrote:

>> BING does see the USB drive. But XXClone is blowing away BING

> I think for BING you have to turn on USB 2.0 support in settings.

Like I said, its a steaming turd in a number of areas.

Jones wrote:
> Ed Light wrote:
>> bbbl67 wrote:
>
>>> BING does see the USB drive. But XXClone is blowing away BING
>
>> I think for BING you have to turn on USB 2.0 support in settings.
>
> Like I said, its a steaming turd in a number of areas.
>

Was the USB 2.0 setting in BING turned on?

Have you got an older motherboard (such as K7?).

It's pretty quick for me.

You might try their newsgroup as it gets fast answers.

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On Dec 25, 2:44 am, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
> bbbl67wrote
>
> > Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
> > I've just received the new hard drive, and I have
> > begun the experiments both with BING and XXClone.
>
> I was talking about TI, not BING.

Oh yes, you're right, sorry, I reread the quote: I just had BING in my
head, but you were actually talking TI.

But anyways, XXClone still seems to be blowing BING away.

> > As Jack said, BING does see the USB drive. But
> > XXClone is blowing away BING, hands down, in speed.
>
> I've never liked BING, for that reason.
>
> > So far I'm cloning the laptop's restore partition, which is pretty small, only
> > 4GB or so. It's taking XXClone only about 15-20 minutes to copy that over USB,
>
> Thats a hell of a long time for 4GB.

Could be, but it's a laptop, using 5400RPM drives here.

> > I don't know why it's so much slower. Maybe because BING copies
> > it at the very low level, sector-by-sector, it may be running into USB
> > protocol overhead, whereas XXClone might avoid the low-level overhead?
>
> Maybe, but if it is doing it sector by sector, its a steaming turd by definition.

Well, what else does "low-level" mean other than sector-by-sector? You
said that TI uses low-level procedures too.

Yousuf Khan

On Dec 24, 6:21 pm, Ed Light <nob...@nobody.there> wrote:
> bbbl67wrote:
> > BING does see the USB drive. But XXClone is blowing away BING
>
> I think for BING you have to turn on USB 2.0 support in settings.

The version I have doesn't seem to have a setting for that. I have
version 1.44a.

Yousuf Khan

bbbl67 wrote:
> On Dec 24, 6:21 pm, Ed Light <nob...@nobody.there> wrote:
>> bbbl67wrote:
>>> BING does see the USB drive. But XXClone is blowing away BING
>> I think for BING you have to turn on USB 2.0 support in settings.
>
> The version I have doesn't seem to have a setting for that. I have
> version 1.44a.
>
> Yousuf Khan

1.86 here. Better grab the new one, with the enable usb 2.0 setting.

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