Is it Fine to?: Ctrl+C contents of secondary HDD then reformat and paste content back in.

tigerside

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So I was playing around with my secondary 2TB HDD to condense the partitions and accidentally made it a dynamic drive. So I reformatted to make it a basic again and to backup I simply copied the data on the drive (including Microsoft office's hidden folder) to an external HDD. After reformatting I went ahead and just pasted the content from the external back onto the drive. (Note: After reformat - name of disk, path, drive letter etc was made the same and completely identical)

My question, is there going to be any underlying or unseen issues by doing this. The drive just had some installed software files, documents etc around 40gb worth (relatively new PC build). All computer shortcuts, searching for files, programs etc work fine and there is no visible issue. Just slightly paranoid so a little bit of reassurance on this issue would be wonderful.

- Win8 OS installed on a seperate SDD (untouched by the above process)
- secondary HDD is just for storage.

Thanks in advance.
 

kanewolf

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If you really intend to Ctrl+C, format, Ctrl+V then I don't think that would work. You might be able to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to an temporary spot on another disk, format, Ctrl+C from temp, Ctrl+V back on original location. If you value your data, I would recommend using Acronis or some other disk image software to backup and restore.
 

tigerside

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You are correct, I did do Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to an temporary spot on another disk, format, Ctrl+C from temp, Ctrl+V back on original location. I was just curious as to if there was any other considerations to take into account here. It appears though that everything worked out fine, registry is not having any issues and everything runs/is intact. I will definitely use a disk image software in the future.

Thanks both for your answers and reassurances.