Share via

Windows 11, copying files between hard drives painfully slow

Anonymous
2023-11-07T14:37:48+00:00

Has anyone else experiencing extremely long times for copying one hard drive to another?

I'm trying to copy all the files from a standard 3.5" hard drive to an SSD.

It's almost 1TB of data but the speeds continuosly drop to less than 1MB/s when in safe mode, as running the PC in it's normal mode stalled the copying process with it showing 0KB/s.

I am on the latest version of Windows and with the newest updates with the apparent bug fix.

I am on day 3 of copying these files.

I have tried all the "fixes" that show up on Google and both hard drives have "full control" by myself/all users.

Hoping someone can help.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

47 answers

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-14T23:42:47+00:00

    I second this. I have a brand new built computer using NVME for both drives. No viruses. It took me an hour to unpack a zip file that i got from drop box and copy it to my computer. Meanwhile my buddy with a piece of trash laptop that is 5 years old running windows 10 was done in 3 minutes. I have read through all of the comments and suggestions and they are bullcrap.

    4 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-24T01:08:30+00:00

    Those should have NOTHING to do with file copying from one SSD to another or USB drive to an NVME drive. etc...

    4 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-16T18:08:08+00:00

    I assume O365 is not installed?

    0365?
    What's an 0365?
    Can be ANYTHING.

    If you respond, PLEASE make it clear, as to what you are on about?
    Since, trying to Google that ... I had billions of sites, ranging from phone numbers to version numbers of everything.

    Why do people never be clear?
    It's not hard to do?

    3 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-10T13:37:14+00:00

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    I have gone the Robocopy route. And while it is still very slow, I can actually see what the progress is in terms what's being copied across.

    Thanks again

    3 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments
  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-07T15:35:32+00:00

    I assume O365 is not installed?

    Do you have a third party AV installed as there should be no problem in win normal boot

    I copies 19,000kb an hour ago and it took some seconds, something on your system is causing this

    3 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments