E-66 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I have a 120 GB HDD with over 100 GB of data on it. I know it's not a good practice to do that, but at the time I had no choice but to move the last 30 GB or so of files onto the drive. Those last 30 GB are rather fragmented, and with the drive as full as it is it would be pointless to try to defrag it, so I wanted to know what the best way would be to move the disk's entire contents to an empty 320 GB drive.Move it all at once and then defrag the new drive after everything is moved?Move 10+ GB over at a time, defrag the new HDD, then repeat?Move 50% over to the new HDD, defrag both drives, then move the remaining now-defragged files over from the smaller HDD?Or what?FYI, almost all of the files are lossless audio files with an average size around 25-30 MB.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Is that your only hard drive or is it a media only hard drive?If it's your only hard drive, you can remove *.tmp, *.bak, *.old and other temporary files. You can also remove items in any temp directories. You may also remove items in the Config.msi directory. I can provide more if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Move it all at once and then defrag the new drive after everything is moved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-66 Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 It's just for storage.Thanks LLXX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 sounds like a great excuse for disk cloning, like ghost or acronis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-66 Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 I have Ghost already, although I've never messed around with the clone part of the program.I'd probably just use xxcopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 XXCOPY has never failed me. What a great app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I have Ghost already, although I've never messed around with the clone part of the program.Isn't cloning all that Ghost does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-66 Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 I meant I've only used it to make images of partitions, I've never done a direct disk > disk or partition > partition copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Isn't cloning all that Ghost does? huh.gifYes, pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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