Moving Files from Existing to New HD

johnnymk · 05-13-2003, 11:01 AM

I installed a 120 GB hard drive which replaced my 40 GB unit. Both drives are Maxtor. I used MaxBlast to transfer the old info to the new drive. The original partition was approx. 9 GB and 31 GB. The larger partition was totally filled with AVI files. The new partition is 8 GB and 112 GB.
After changing the jumper settings and replacing the drive, the only info on the new drive are the programs. There are no AVI files anywhere. What did I do wrong and how can I copy all of those AVI files to the larger partition of the new drive?

Joshua · 05-13-2003, 01:34 PM

Put both hard drives in together and use Xcopy from the command line.

XCOPY source [destination]

Xcopy D: E: /e /h

mcs328 · 05-13-2003, 04:31 PM

Maybe this should be a seperate thread but what the heck...
Is there a special reason you or anyone else partitions large HD to smaller ones?

For me I have two physical drives and I keep the OS and Programs on the smaller drive and the larger drive filled with data. However is there another scheme some of your guys do if you were limited to one drive? Like say you're building around a shuttle case and put in a 180 gig HD in it only. Do you split it down the middle or just partition enough to hold the OS while all the data files and programs go in the other?

Joshua · 05-14-2003, 09:03 AM

People usually set up multiple partitions for one of two reasons. Either they are organization freaks or Nerds.

Myself, I'm a nerd. The way that the Windows and DOS file systems work makes it so that the larger your hard drive partition is, more of it goes to waste with overhead. Long story short, if you take a 100gb drive and try to make a 100gb partition, you won't be able to because of over head. It'll show up as like 89gb.

Breaking it up into smaller partitions gives you less overhead and you are able to reclaim your lost space.

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Originally posted by mcs328
Maybe this should be a seperate thread but what the heck...
Is there a special reason you or anyone else partitions large HD to smaller ones?

For me I have two physical drives and I keep the OS and Programs on the smaller drive and the larger drive filled with data. However is there another scheme some of your guys do if you were limited to one drive? Like say you're building around a shuttle case and put in a 180 gig HD in it only. Do you split it down the middle or just partition enough to hold the OS while all the data files and programs go in the other?

mcs328 · 05-14-2003, 09:37 AM

Ah...I'm an organization freak then. Just in case my OS dies or something I like to Ghost it so it runs like it was a fresh install. Then reload all the important programs back on.

Bires · 05-14-2003, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mcs328
Maybe this should be a seperate thread but what the heck...
Is there a special reason you or anyone else partitions large HD to smaller ones?

I do it for fragmentation.

I have one partition for my system (OS) files (moderate fragmentation), a 2G partition for my swap file/temp files (high fragmentation), and the rest for games and media files. I use a separate drive (RAID stripe) for DC++ filesharing.

I found that keeping all the temp files on one small drive makes my system slightly faster.

(Organization freak I guess)

johnnymk · 05-14-2003, 10:41 AM

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Originally posted by SnotRocket
Put both hard drives in together and use Xcopy from the command line.

XCOPY source [destination]

Xcopy D: E: /e /h

I tried XCopy. It converted 110 files (out of approx. 500) which took 2 hours and then said there was no more space?
I am just going to Windows Explorer and dragging each file over to the appropriate drive. It's going to take forever, but I can't figure anything better. It is taking about 1 hour for 100 files.

Joshua · 05-14-2003, 01:18 PM

You can also use Robocopy.exe which is part of the Windows 2000 resource kits tools you can D/L from Microsoft.

It is much more robust and I've never had it fail.

That out of space error sounds bad. Maybe your ran out of swap space on the source drive?

05-13-2003, 11:01 AM	#1
johnnymk Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: May 2000 Location: LEVITTOWN< PA> USA Posts: 13,621	Moving Files from Existing to New HD I installed a 120 GB hard drive which replaced my 40 GB unit. Both drives are Maxtor. I used MaxBlast to transfer the old info to the new drive. The original partition was approx. 9 GB and 31 GB. The larger partition was totally filled with AVI files. The new partition is 8 GB and 112 GB. After changing the jumper settings and replacing the drive, the only info on the new drive are the programs. There are no AVI files anywhere. What did I do wrong and how can I copy all of those AVI files to the larger partition of the new drive?

05-13-2003, 01:34 PM	#2
Joshua Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 3,390	Put both hard drives in together and use Xcopy from the command line. XCOPY source [destination] Xcopy D: E: /e /h __________________ The Apexer formerly known as SnotRocket. "Like I **ing said, "Ok, so I hear it may be a repost. Blah But I had never seen it, so..." ** you Canta." -Jenny 12/4/2003

05-13-2003, 04:31 PM	#3
mcs328 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 6,578	Maybe this should be a seperate thread but what the heck... Is there a special reason you or anyone else partitions large HD to smaller ones? For me I have two physical drives and I keep the OS and Programs on the smaller drive and the larger drive filled with data. However is there another scheme some of your guys do if you were limited to one drive? Like say you're building around a shuttle case and put in a 180 gig HD in it only. Do you split it down the middle or just partition enough to hold the OS while all the data files and programs go in the other? __________________

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05-14-2003, 09:37 AM	#5
mcs328 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 6,578	Ah...I'm an organization freak then. Just in case my OS dies or something I like to Ghost it so it runs like it was a fresh install. Then reload all the important programs back on.

05-14-2003, 01:18 PM	#8
Joshua Rear Admiral Upper Half Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 3,390	You can also use Robocopy.exe which is part of the Windows 2000 resource kits tools you can D/L from Microsoft. It is much more robust and I've never had it fail. That out of space error sounds bad. Maybe your ran out of swap space on the source drive?

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