How to copy a large (95gb) from one HD to another

steveinspain

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So, untill I get my raid setup, I need to manually copy folders etc over from one hard drive to another, but when I try to copy my photos over from one hard drive to another I am told I can't. It is, as the title suggest, pretty big !
Why, and how can I do it ?
Cheers
Steve
 
steveinspain said:
So, untill I get my raid setup, I need to manually copy folders etc over from one hard drive to another, but when I try to copy my photos over from one hard drive to another I am told I can't. It is, as the title suggest, pretty big !
Why, and how can I do it ?
Cheers
Steve
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You say you can't. I want to know:

What is your OS?
What is the message that appears to say you cant?
 
Parallel cable and Laplink forthewin:)


Seriously though as Lucero said, what's the error message? Try using Robocopy instead of Windows drag/drop.
 
Sorry - its been a long few nights and days...
OS is XP, both drives NFTS and about 440 gb spare.
Error message says "Error Copyinf File or Folder" then underneath is a big X in a red circle and the friendly message saying 'Cannot copy file: '

I doubt there are any files over 4gb - they are all photos
 
If it's just a folder of images then why not try and break it down in to smaller chunks? Then you would see if it's an error with certain files or folders or if it's something more serious than that.
 
Go to Start, Run, type in cmd.

Type xcopy /C /e X:\Photos Y:\Photos

Where X and Y are the drive letters.
 
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I sugest Robocopy something like :

ROBOCOPY.EXE X:\photos z:\photos /mir /R:0 /X > c:\SyncLOG.TXT

this will generate a log of were any problems are.
CMD & Robocopy for the win!! :D

I'm wondering if its something to do with Long file names/paths as a possability?
also i think windows has a problem with larg numbers of files being copied over at the same time so it could be the shear number of files making the problem.

My thoughts anyway.
 
why not just copy some folders at a time and see where the problem lies...im assuming you dont have them all in 1 folder and even if you do just copy some at a time.
 
are said above, are there any very deep / long file names?

if so, then use 7zip file manager, put 2 panel view on, and copy from one to the other
 
Right - sorted it - there was a file which for some reason had a file inside with the same name, then another inside that with the same name and so on and on. Nothing in any of them, and no idea how they got to be, but we do have very odd mains power, and despite me having a UPS things still go wrong at times, so I assume it wassome computer glitch - surely not me at fault....??
 
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