SSD clone going to take thousands of hours?

[rjo98]

Just bought a SSD which came with EZ Gig cloning software. I installed the SSD in the computer on an open port, booted Windows, and disk manager saw it as a new drive. So I then went into the cloning software, picked my existing HDD as the source, my SSD as the destination, picked SmartCopy and the 4k option, then clicked Clone. After 8 hours of running, it's still at 5%, hasn't budged, and the estimated time remaining is a few thousand hours.
Anyone else experienced this or have any tips? Is the provided cloning software not good and I should try another one?

 

[Barty1884]

I don't have experience with that particular cloning software, but something doesn't sound right.

First of all, what size are your partitions/drives? Going from a TB HDD to a 500GB SSD causes all sorts of problems with some cloning software.

Not sure what SmartCopy or the 4K option would do (although the 4K option likely exists to transfer 4K quality videos).

There are numerous, free cloning options, and I would suggest you try another (try Macrium http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx if you wish). If the clone works with other software, you can identify a flaw in your process &/or software used. If it doesn't, we'll need to dig more into it