hard drive failure (moving a specific folder)

[evilmegaman]

So my hard drive has essentially had it. it's an external drive. it's essentially broken, but it'll work for a little while before clicking and taking a dump on life. :P

But I tried to copy a folder over (about 40 gigs are so) to another drive, and it failed midway because the hard drive decided it's time to crap out in the middle. so how do I resume the copy? I can't really tell where exactly it failed.. Help?

[curlywagner]

Damn, hate that. You could use robobopy from the Windows Resource Kit
http://www.soloenterprises.org/tips-and-tricks/robocopy.php
to copy over the remaining files. The command would go something like this:

robocopy "G:\half copied folder" "H:\half copied folder" /e /copyall /np /xo /log:robocopy.log

This will only copy what hasn't been copied already.

[HelenaP]

Damn, hate that. You could use robobopy from the Windows Resource Kit
http://www.soloenterprises.org/tips-and-tricks/robocopy.php
to copy over the remaining files. The command would go something like this:

robocopy "G:\half copied folder" "H:\half copied folder" /e /copyall /np /xo /log:robocopy.log

This will only copy what hasn't been copied already.

Handy. Thanks CW!

[evilmegaman]

Damn, hate that. You could use robobopy from the Windows Resource Kit
http://www.soloenterprises.org/tips-and-tricks/robocopy.php
to copy over the remaining files. The command would go something like this:

robocopy "G:\half copied folder" "H:\half copied folder" /e /copyall /np /xo /log:robocopy.log

This will only copy what hasn't been copied already.



gonna sound stupid... but will that work in vista?

[curlywagner]

Any time :D It's a good utility. I used to use it for backing up data in my old job. The syntax may not be exact, but it's pretty close.
There may be a better way, but that's how I'd do it.
@EMM - Yeah it will. It looks like you don't even have to dl it. Go to Start, Run and type 'cmd' then type 'robocopy' at the prompt. If it's installed you'll see a list of options.