fastest way to move data to different partition?

[Kilgore65]

I want to move all my data, about 35GB worth, to a different partition on my HD. Is there a faster way to do it rather than copying all the files using Windows Explorer? I have Partition Magic and Norton Ghost... do they offer any faster options?

 

[Zugzwang152]

in the time it's going to take you to get a maybe marginally faster solution you could be copying with windows explorer or xcopy.

 

[Basie]

I usually use Xcopy. Go to command prompt type:
xcopy x:\*.* y:\/s/e/h/c/k/r X=partition to be copied Y=partition copied to

I use it to copy my WinMe OS. Works fine.

 

[Kilgore65]

don't want to copy the whole partition, just the data...

 

[KoolDrew]

Explorer

 

[Kilgore65]

damn, ok thx

 

[KoolDrew]

There may be better options, but like Zugzwang said, by the time you find them you could of already copied the data. Just copy it and go do something else for a while.

 

[Zolty]

do it before bed and be glad its not over a network

 

[thegorx]

moving data to a different hard drive on a different ide channel would be faster
but moving 35GB from one partition to another on the same drive is gonna take some time and there just no way around that.

also it might be easier to think of this like coping rather than moving
because some people think that when you move data on a single partition that the data is actually being moved and very fast
then they wonder why it's so slow when they move it to another partition.

 

[AristoV300]

Explorer is the easiest. The fastest would be transfer it to another HDD on another channel.

 

[Kilgore65]

actually it's in progress now and not taking nearly the time I expected it to...

 

[Googer]

Unlike Windows and XCOPY, Ontrack does a wonderful job of copying data verbaitum. It think it is either the Data advisor or Disk Manager; I cannot remember which one I used when I got my new hard drive.

http://www.ontrack.com/Homepage.aspx?id=3&pagename=Software

 

[thegorx]

yes there are problems when copying programs a new drive and the use of DOS names even though windows doesn't use DOS names the registry still does.
and when you have program folders like
micros~1 micros~2 micros~3 micros~4 things can get messed up depending on the order they are copied