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Guest Rickster21a
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I have used File Scavanger to recover a hard drive partition that had a

corrupted MTF, to a fresh hard drive. Now that I have reformated the

original hard drive partition, I need to put them back. I am trying to copy

more then 5 million small (11-15 KB) files (in 90 folders) from one hard

drive partition to another. I am looking for the best way to do this . The

drag and drop method does not work (it works some times if I copy only a few

folders at a time), as the system gets hung up. Xcopy tends to work, unless

if finds an error on the NTFS MFT, or it runs out of resources and crashes

out. Is there any trick, hint, command, or 3rd party software that will alow

me to copy the files with out my intervention. This is not the first time I

have done this, and it will not be my last. ;)

Please HELP!

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Guest Patrick Keenan
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Re: Copy millions of files in Win XP

 

"Rickster21a" <Rickster21a@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:BA94E032-6571-46A3-B304-3B9C87114C97@microsoft.com...

>I have used File Scavanger to recover a hard drive partition that had a

> corrupted MTF, to a fresh hard drive. Now that I have reformated the

> original hard drive partition, I need to put them back. I am trying to

> copy

> more then 5 million small (11-15 KB) files (in 90 folders) from one hard

> drive partition to another. I am looking for the best way to do this .

> The

> drag and drop method does not work (it works some times if I copy only a

> few

> folders at a time), as the system gets hung up. Xcopy tends to work,

> unless

> if finds an error on the NTFS MFT, or it runs out of resources and crashes

> out. Is there any trick, hint, command, or 3rd party software that will

> alow

> me to copy the files with out my intervention. This is not the first time

> I

> have done this, and it will not be my last. ;)

> Please HELP!

 

You might try FileSync - http://www.fileware.com

 

 

HTH

-pk

Guest John John
Posted

Re: Copy millions of files in Win XP

 

You can use Robocopy, look for it on Microsoft.com

 

John

 

Rickster21a wrote:

> I have used File Scavanger to recover a hard drive partition that had a

> corrupted MTF, to a fresh hard drive. Now that I have reformated the

> original hard drive partition, I need to put them back. I am trying to copy

> more then 5 million small (11-15 KB) files (in 90 folders) from one hard

> drive partition to another. I am looking for the best way to do this . The

> drag and drop method does not work (it works some times if I copy only a few

> folders at a time), as the system gets hung up. Xcopy tends to work, unless

> if finds an error on the NTFS MFT, or it runs out of resources and crashes

> out. Is there any trick, hint, command, or 3rd party software that will alow

> me to copy the files with out my intervention. This is not the first time I

> have done this, and it will not be my last. ;)

> Please HELP!

Guest Paul Knudsen
Posted

Re: Copy millions of files in Win XP

 

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:48:01 -0700, Rickster21a

<Rickster21a@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>This is not the first time I

>have done this, and it will not be my last. ;)

>Please HELP!

 

Do a backup/restore. You can get a free trial version of Nero.

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