Windows 10: Why does copying system or user data go so slow?

I've noticed many times that copying certain types of data takes a long time- I think it's mainly when copying system or user data. For example right now I had to send my laptop in for repair so I took the drive out of the computer and attached it with usb to my other computer. Also attached my backup drive. I had 2 partitions to back up- OS (windows 10) and a data drive. The data drive I backed up at about 70-110 MB/s. The OS partition is averaging about 2 MB/s. This is all from and to the same drives. Neither of them are close to being full. The source drive had 160gb of data on a 480gb drive and the destination drive had 970gb free of 1tb. I used robocopy to avoid long filename errors. Like I said I've seen this a lot when I copy complete user data from a system drive when I remove it and connect externally, then try to copy.

Thanks for your help!


Edit- also I don't think it's my computer being slow (unless the data is archived so densely and so fragmented that it takes huge amounts of processing power to get the info for some reason). Source drive is an ssd 90/80 kiops 500/400 seq.destination drive unfragmented hdd. Computer processor is quad core 2.5-3.5ghz, 16gb Ram, ssd. I've also noticed same behaviour on other systems (i5-8250u, 16gb Ram, newer ssd) & (i5-6200u 8gb ram ssd).

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How to copy administrator user account

Hi,

I suggest you to follow the below steps to copy the user date and check if it helps.

Note: I suggest to create a new user profile and transfer user data to new account and delete or change the corrupt user profile.

Copy User Data: Follow the below steps to copy files to the new user profile

• Log on as a user other than the user whose profile you are copying files to or from.
• In Windows Explorer, click View, and Check mark hidden files and folders, uncheck the
  Hide protected operating system files check box, and then click
  OK.
• Locate the C:\Users\Old Username folder, where
  C is the drive on which Windows is installed, and Old Username is the name of the profile you want to copy user data from.
• Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file and subfolder in this folder, except the following files:
  

• 
  Ntuser.dat
  
• 
  Ntuser.dat.log
  
• 
  Ntuser.ini
  

• On the Edit menu, click
  Copy.
• Locate the C:\Users\New Username folder, where
  C is the drive on which Windows is installed, and New Username is the name of the user profile that you created in the "Create a New User Profile" section.
• On the Edit menu, click
  Paste.
• Log off the computer, and then log on as the new user.

Keep us informed if the issue is resolved. We are glad to help you further.

 

Slow Data copy/paste SPEEDS in WINDOWS 10


Hello Guyz, I encountered a problem after upgrading to windows 10. I had extremely slow data transfer speed from any storage media. I myself found a fix for it. I didn't have this prob in win 7. I hope that u understand.

Regards
Robert Stark

Follow the steps below As Attached

 

System slow down

Hello,

Slow PC performance can be caused by several factors. Since you are aware of the issue's source, we suggest that you run the
Maintenance task. This will help you in checking and resolving any issues that is causing your device to slow down. Here are the steps:

• Press Windows + X.
• Select Control Panel.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• Click on Run maintenance task under System and Security.

If the issue is still not resolved, feel free to let us know and we'll assist you further.