Why is winclone so slow?

[jerwin]

I have winclone 7 set up to automatically reimage my bootcamp installation weekly. This has saved my bacon more than once. However, it is extremely slow, and occasionally reduces my imac to a crawl.

windows partition on a USB3 connected SSD. Backup is to my documents folder (on my fusion drive).

What's going on?

 

[pankaj0008]

On non-ssd drives, WIM-based imaging can be slow. Switch to block-based imaging in preferences before creating the image, and it should be as fast as winclone 5.

 

[d5aqoëp]

Because you are using Winclone which means it is a clone of real Windows. Of course it will run slow. Duh!

 

[haralds]

Because you are using Winclone which means it is a clone of real Windows. Of course it will run slow. Duh!

WinClone is NOT a clone of Windows. It is a macOS native utility to image and restore Windows partitions - FAT and NTFS. I have found it to be superior to Windows native tools.
It also makes migrating installations easy including to new configurations.
But you gotta have macOS to run it from.

 

[crjackson2134]

Because you are using Winclone which means it is a clone of real Windows. Of course it will run slow. Duh!

Clearly you don’t know what WinClone is... It’s a disk cloning tool. Duh!

 

[d5aqoëp]

Clearly you don’t know what WinClone is... It’s a disk cloning tool. Duh!

I forgot the /s tag