Stuck, semi-nooby usb partition

It's taking about 2hrs for my two internal hard drives to transfer 18g between em, just to say kinda crap dealing with, feel frustrated, newer pc's require lot more to know to work on em. And I think I got a bit lost trying things.

I d/l the w7 usb upgrade tool. I am going to use that and the iso to reinstall w7. Except I get, file spec'd is not an iso. Googling I read about something that tells me to start with partitioning with diskpart. So I do, now the usb has one partition that I can't figure out the delete part control or process. After that partition is removed, I found another link that I hopefully can put to use to get the frigging -named- usb w7 install tool, to actually work.

I still got a 100g to transfer and that could be a day or more as slow as it's moving. I'm almost to the point of throwing it, I just wish this method that is on msoft's site was actually supported with documentation, not having to search the web to learn something msfot should have said from the getgo. So that's two problems, and I appreciate the help you can give.

 

Hi,

The USB tool you have downloaded is just used to put a bootable version of the Win7 install files on a USB flash drive.

It should have nothing to do with transferring files. As far as the not a valid ISO image do you have extensions for known file types showing? Start/Orb > Control Panel> Folder Options>View tab>uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known filetypes". This should allow you see extensions and to verify if the file you are trying to put on USB is indeed an ISO.

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On the file transfer problem, you have two internal HDs that have been working properly before this? What exactly are you trying to do? Empty one HD for the install? What are the sizes of the HDs and how are you copying the files (using drag and drop or some other method)?

 

Yo,
Thanks for replying. It is the iso you can dl right from msoft store. It's valid. My usb is partitioned and I'm not able to undo that. the second link I was going to try was here http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/11/01/use-the-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-with-custom-isos/

As this is what further reading came too late for earlier. I need to unpartition the usb, as now diskpart shows 4 disks, where without any changes or additions there were 3 before. After that I will try this link. As apparently the msfot's store's usb tool is not for those of us who have previously had w7 installed, we must use the custom iso link I showed above.

So how do I unpartition this drive, or can i?

 

As to the two hd's, they're both 500g, one is new, the other is factory installed. Until the past two days they both seemed fine. I did transfer drag n drop, I have rebooted and still no effect. And the new HD is being emptied for format/install of w7. But, I figure once done, it will be fine. I'll remmove the current c: permanently and then replace with another new HD down the road. It's take 18+hrs for 114g, to me that seems pretty slow. I think this will be probably cleared by using new HD as C, and if not, I'll buy 2 new HD's and begin again (Sigh)

 

Hi

Transfer speeds don't depend on simply amount of data, but number of files as well. For instance, 300 3MB picture files will take longer to transfer than 1 900MB movie file. Also, if you don't keep your drives defragmented, that can make a big dent in the transfer speeds, too, since the drive has to go everywhere to piece together the data instead of moving along in an orderly fashion.

However, as far as fragmentation goes, since you're already doing the transfer, it's likely to be faster to just run with it than defragment before completing the swap. Don't put money on that, though... depends on how long it would take to defrag the drive.

For future reference, if you have a large number of files that you don't use often, use an archive utility (7Zip is freeware and can do ZIP, RAR, 7z, etc. formats) to put groups of files in archives. That will definitely help the transfer speeds. Depending on the files you archive, it can even compress them to a smaller total size in the end, though with modern file compression, archiving doesn't have the compression impact it used to have.