re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by normanw
(1284 messages posted)
You might like to take a look at this
post.
On Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 9:29 am, raminder singh wrote:
>Lenovo Desktop, XP, sp2, with AVG 8.0 free, Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster.
>
>I use Erunt to backup my registry (about every 3 days) and once a month I image
the
>drives on my single hard disk, using DriveImage. The Erunt backup used to take only
>a few seconds and the imaging of C: drive used to take about 4 minutes. But the
last
>two Erunt backups took several times longer than usual, and when I imaged my C:
drive
>today, it took 31 minutes instead of the usual 3 and a half minutes! However, the
>size of the C_.dat file generated by DriveImage is not much bigger than it used
to
>be. Something is evidently very wrong.
>
>My computer did crash in the past month due to the failure of the UPS during a power
>failure. I reported this in my Annoyances post, t1237878254, dated March 24. A user
>profile got corrupted, which I subsequently deleted after duplication. The computer
>appears to be working well enough, apart from much longer delays than usual in the
>appearance of the desktop for the old profile (but not for the newly duplicated
one)
>and in the response to any command (clicking on any icon) soon after the desktop
>appears, for both profiles. Later there is no such delay. No hardware or software
>has been added in the past few weeks and the drive does not need defragging.
>
>For the past several days I have noticed a succession of red errors in the Event
>viewer, System section, almost all at the clock time at which the computered is
turned
>on (powered on). Event 11 -- errors in the hard disk controller are reported. However,
>several runs of the Western Digital hard disk test utility have revealed no problem
>with the disk.
>
> I am out of my depth trying to figure out the cause of these errors and what corrective
>action to take. I do have an image of the drive going back to the time before the
>crash occurred, but not having ever done a restore of the system partition, I am
>a bit anxious about attempting it. There is no system restore point earlier than
>March 28.
>
>I would be grateful for advice.
>
>raminder singh
>
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