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Jan 19, 2005, 08:23 PM
 
using Carbon Copy Cloner and a 1.1 USB connection? It's been about 24 hours now and it's 2/3 of the way done. Is this normal?
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Jan 19, 2005, 08:28 PM
 
Originally posted by shreddog:
using Carbon Copy Cloner and a 1.1 USB connection? It's been about 24 hours now and it's 2/3 of the way done. Is this normal?
If the drive is really b0rnked and it takes a while to read, yes.

Oh, and USB 1.1? WTF? Where's your firewire? That's gonna take forever. How large is the drive?
     
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Jan 19, 2005, 08:38 PM
 
I couldn'tget the firewire connection to work so I just started backing up with the USB. it is about 70GB. Gonna take a while I guess.

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