iPad New iPad Pro 202i restore...stuck at "Time remaining: About 5 seconds"

[Biko65]

Hello there...just got my brand new iPad Pro 2021 and tried to restore it from a fresh iTunes PC backup done few hours ago.

Af first, the estimated time was constantly increasing and when it got to 42 hours, I decide to reset the iPad and reboot the PC.

Eventually the restore started succesfully, and after about 2 hours ( I have 400 GB of data inside ) the Estimated time started to decrease : 10 Minutes, 5 minutes, 1 minutes...5 seconds and....well, it is like that since about 1 hour and a half.

I have the infamous small windows that says : "Time remaining : About 5 seconds" and that's it. The windows can be moved around the screen, iTunes is not stuck, it is "responding" according to the PC Task Manager, but I don't see any disk activity from the places where the restore files are.

I Assume that abruptly detaching the cable will not work as some acknowledge has failed to arrive to the iPad...
Any idea ?

Andy.

EDIT tried brute force and caressing ......: First I detached the cable and of course the iPad had 99.999 of the data inside but acted as newly set up.
Now I'm trying the "OLD iPad nearby" option...and it is transferring all the data.
Estimated 2 hours, although...I reckon it is happening via bluetooth so I guess it is an optimist estimation, right ?

 

[Gregg2]

So, did it finish? The suspense is killing me!

 

[Biko65]

It did not, but the wireless transfer did the trick.
Also...I discovered what was wrong, for the benefit of other fellow owners that could incur in the same error : I was restoring with the cable plugged into an USB HUB which, with USB-C speed and/or tech paradygm is probably not a good practice : plugged the cable on the back of the PC directly on a USB 3.1 port and got immediately doubled transfer speed and restore finished OK.
Thank you Gregg2 for your concern ! 😅