I just shafted myself :-(

[mutated]

I have been under lot of deadline stress and my my new PC was giving me lot of problems. Anyway to be safe I decided to back up my current project folder (19GB) to my old but stable PC. The HD is in 2 partitions. One has system the other has data. So I dragged the 19GB folder into the data partition of the HD. The systm shut down after few minutes of copying. It boot's but windows does not come. I just relaized the reason it crashed probably was because i dragged the 19GB file into a partition that had only 15GB space left. I had forgoten this detail due to lack of sleep and work stress!!!!!!!

I am shafted!

 

[mutated]

How can it let me even start copying if there was not enough space? Stupid windows stupid me :-( I just see a black screen with blinking dash :-(

 

[Robor]

Put your new PC's hard drive into your old, stable PC and you should be able to see all of your data.

Edit: Wait a minute... You've got 2 different PC's or 2 HD's in one PC or 1 HD with 2 partitions in 1 PC?

 

[Sunner]

It wouldn't crash because the HD filled up, it would just tell you that the copy operation failed and abort it.
Robor's suggestions sounds good to me.

 

[mutated]

The other PC is sata one :-( Well why else would it crash? It never dd before. There is ome HD with 2 partitions. I was transfering the 19GB file from an external HD to the non-system partition.

 

[Robor]

If you had filled up the primary partition with the system files on it I could see where that might've caused a crash but the way Windows looks at it you were essentially filling up a storage drive. Windows should just warn you that it's getting full then stop the copy when it fills up. I've seen similar situations where the copy goes up to the point of almost filling the drive (down to a few KB of space) and the system didn't crash. Still, that's too much of a coincidence. Have you tried booting with an XP CD and using the Repair option?

 

[mutated]

It's windows 2000. I don't want to risk it. I rather take it to the PC shop and try to trecover the data. I have most of my stuff backed up but still there is some that is not backed. Come to think of it 1 year ago the system crashed as well when I was transferring lot of GBs worth of data. It resulted in me having to reinstall W2k and put a new HD just to be safe. If you knew the amount of bad luck I have been having lately you would think that I was making up :-(

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: mutated
How can it let me even start copying if there was not enough space? Stupid windows stupid me :-(

If it's one gigantic 19GB file it won't let you copy it. If you have a zillion little files that add up to 19GB, it will copy them until it gets to the point where there is no more space.

I just see a black screen with blinking dash :-(

That would be bad. As suggested, try putting the drive in another system (which is all the 'PC shop' is going to do...) and copying the data onto a good drive. Odds are something got hosed with Windows, but your data is OK.

And next time, back up your data more regularly (and backing up onto another partition of the same drive doesn't count...).

 

[mutated]

I did try to open my email sofware (thunderbird) while transfering was going on and it did not start. It said something was not found. Then I thought I should try starting from the "program" menue instead of the shortcut. In the "program" menue 80% of the programs were not showing/invisible/missing. Shortly after it crashed.

 

[mutated]

Matthias I do backup externally and on a second independant drive that is on the system. You are right that I should be more regular in my backups. Yes I know what the PC shop will do but i don't have a PC or access to one in which I could put the HD :-(

 

[clearodef]

If you're located nearby, I'll do it for ya discounted 🙂

I'm in LA, particularly, OC.

 

[mutated]

How about flying to Europe? 😛 I am taking to my PC shop in the morning.