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Large transfer of files
Name: Ryunosuke782 Date: August 17, 2005 at 11:56:32 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: 2.4 / 1gb ram
Comment:
Hello
I wish to transfer thousands of files (totalling over 80gb) from one hard drive to another; but with copy and paste is taking ages, and hangs :S is there any software which might help? thanks Ryu
Name: jam14online Date: August 17, 2005 at 12:03:36 Pacific
Reply:
I recommend trying it through the command prompt. Switch to the directory you need to copy files from by typing "cd c:\path\to\place\" (without quotes) and pressing ENTER. Then you can tell it to copy all files in that directory to somewhere else, like so:
copy *.* d:\other\place\
This should give progress on individual files and it will be obvious when it's finished. If you need to copy directory structures as well, try the xcopy command.
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Response Number 2
Name: wizard-fred Date: August 17, 2005 at 12:53:20 Pacific
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Copyng takes a long time because the directoty structur has to be created on the destination. Also there is a Win 98 bug that causes the system to slow when large number of files are created or deleted. I would recommend copying in batches and rebooting between.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rick McNabb Date: August 17, 2005 at 13:10:00 Pacific
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There is Backup under Programs->Acessories-> System Tools. Anything will take quite awhile to copy 80GB.
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