How Long To Restore Vista 32 Business to 128Gb SSD X200?

[shfawaz]

It's been going for almost 3 hours with the please wait screen after it seemed to be chugging along. This is a factory disc full restore. The hdd light flashes every second or so.

[shfawaz]

After 5 hours, I finally pulled the plug and started all over. The second time around this went for about 90 minutes to complete. Much more like it.

There must have been some kind of glitch in the first process.

[Marin85]

I think 90 min is too long as well...

[jdhurst]

90 minutes sounds ok to me based on restoring a T61 to Vista 64-bit. ..... JDH

[aau007]

Most of the 90 minutes are spent on reading the DVD. Writing the restore to the SSD is super fast.

[Marin85]

Yet for 2/3 of that time (means an hour) I´m able to clean-install Vista, install all my applications (including the big and slow ones), put my data back on this setup and drink a beer or two...

[jdhurst]

That is so fast it is not believable! It takes 15 minutes or more to install Office 2007 and update it to the newest service pack. It takes 10 minutes to install VMware. It takes 30 minutes or more to copy over 12 GB of virtual machines. It takes over a hour to update all the Lenovo drivers with all the reboots in between. And all of this excludes reimaging the machine. Any time I have reimaged an IBM box, it has taken well over an hour.

Sorry friend, I would not be caught dead with any computer that had been lashed together in less than 60 minutes. It would not be able to do my work, not even 1% of it.

Cheers, .... JDH

[Marin85]

Not believable?!... Let´s see... Well, I admit I don´t count M$ updates (but I do count Office 2007 SP1), BUT:
1. I keep all Lenovo drivers and apps relevant for my system on a separate HD. Over time I learnt my lessons as to which of them work well for me and which don´t. I´m very conservative regarding these particular pieces of software.
2. My VM is only about 1 GB (or 2 GB if I have some Linux in addition)
3. 15min is way tooo looong for Office 2007 to install Same goes for the 10 min of installing VMware (hm, on what hardware do you install these two?)
4. I keep the bigger applications as an installer or .iso image on that separate HD, so I don´t get slowed down by CD/DVD (well, the first time this is plenty of work to create all of them, but once done I´m good to go every time I install/reinstall OS) (that actually may well explain why VM installs faster in my case, the only exception I do is Office 2007 which I still install from the CD, it´s not the full Office suite though).
5. Matlab could take loonger, but I don´t need most of its components, so this makes things much faster
6. The really slow ones (to install) in my case are Nero, Adobe Acrobat Pro
7. A bunch of small apps like VLC, winamp, winrar etc that go fast
8. AVG 7.5 antivirus (still keeping it and still updating), requires a reboot.

Nevertheless, I can well imagine that different users have different setups, so doing everything the way I do it could be a real pain and not necessarily faster... So, I don´t doubt in any way the capabilities of imaging. But to go back to the OP´s post, I don´t think that restoring the factory content as work environment (not with the purpose for selling the laptop) is not worth waiting 90 min (well, though I have to admit it has the advantage of being automatic)

Just my 2 cents

Marin