HANNAY, I usually run BIAB directly from a usb3 HD. This year after receiving the 2014 Everything Pak. upgrade, I decided to just copy it to my C drive without an install. That did not go well. After talking with support 2 times, I deleted my 2013 version and everything containing (bb). Then I started the 2014 install from scratch. It was not going well either. I called support again. Although trying to help, no fix was found. He said let it run and see what happens. I did let it run thru the Christmas parade, a couple movies on Netflix, breakfast Sunday morning and lunch. After 26 and 1/2 hours I was finished smile. Today, to determine if my laptop was at fault, or was it the P.G. HD, I did --a drag the C drive (bb) to F:/XX usb3 HD. One hour and 50 minutes later BIAB was running. I did the same with RealBand. That was running in very short order. Loading 83 GB in less than 2 hrs., would indicate that I need a P.G. HD replacement. I will now store the replacement HD and use the USB3 as always.------Leon