July 31, 201213 yr with the image saved on a 3TB Barracuda 7200. Hello Was that seagate 3TB using GPT partition tables ? I ask because I have not had any slow down here but I am only backing up to a 1TB Samsung F3. I have read a couple of instances of slow boots after imaging and also with having a lot of restore points both these seem linked and is has a hotfix available, I have not used it so I assume it was rolled out with windows update at some point. The issue with large drives I have also seen mentioned. My boot times are obviously not that quick anyway being on a mechanical drive. looking at event viewer they have increased from 35721ms when W7 was freshly installed with no restore points present and no USB devices connected, to 86525ms today with 11 USB devices connected plus my AV doing boot time checks. So far Windows 7 Backup/Image appears to be having no effect. I am going to try without any restore points or USB devices connected and the prefetch cleaned out to see what effect these are having.
July 31, 201213 yr Author So far Windows 7 Backup/Image appears to be having no effect. Same with me, my boot times seem to be the same even after making the image backup.
July 31, 201213 yr Hello Was that seagate 3TB using GPT partition tables ? It was(is) GPT. I believe I tried the hot fix with no luck. It's not a huge deal, it just bothered me since I didn't get a 512GB SSD to sit around and wait ;)
July 31, 201213 yr Hello Max It seems that the Windows7 backup/imaging tool had or did have an issue with large GPT volumes. It may be fixed now and it seems to be something to do with the volume shadow copy routines. Something to think about if I buy a large storage drive. Windows 8 apparently does not have these issues....
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