moving 170GB folder to a different hard drive

[Gerlug]

I'm about to move a folder from hard drive 1 to hard drive 2, is there any app to help me do this and make sure the files dont get corrupted or anything like that? or i just need to copy and paste?


its a 170 GB folder....

Im on Win 7 64

[osprey4]

Yes, just copy and paste.

[bigBonehead]

^^


Another way is to right click and drag the folder into the new HD.
When asked whether to copy, or move, use copy...

But yeah, Osprey hit the nail on the head....

[GroundZero3]

Another vote for copy/paste

[Steve R Jones]

DO NOT USE cut n paste.... If it gets interrupted you'd lose data.

[xpuser35777]

DO NOT USE cut n paste.... If it gets interrupted you'd lose data.

I use Acronis true home image 11 Copy1s everything to your other harddrive nothing missing.

[ShyguyXPC]

if you own that software and it works, great, but for most other users Copy And Paste in Windows is the best bet, but as was said don't use CUT and Paste.

[Taxmancometh]

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[de_day]

Is the DOS copy command quicker, since you dont have the visual overhead?
Or xcopy as the case may be.

[Scottusa]

There used to be some great disk utilities that would copy or move huge data chunks
and also check to see if any newer files were being overwritten as is could be the case
with doing data backups and also if the file size and date were the same the data
need not be copied. Just as importantly, the transfer would not hang if a file irregularity
was encountered AND there was no limit to the amount of data that could be copied
in one action as is the case with MSFT Disk Explorer /disk manager.

I dont see or hear about these kinds of utilities much these days.

[SpywareDr]

XXCopy

[Scottusa]

Actually the TeraCopy is the CHARM ! I looked all over and tried two other possible file manager solutions but TeraCopy has almost everything I used to have fifteen years ago in the powerful DOS file managers. It is intelligent, fast and efficient and streamlined in it's implementation. It is what Microsoft should have had native in it's OS. The only thing I wonder is if it is going to screw with another image manager that hooks into Windows Explorer just like TERACOPY does. Time will tell.