Hello,
I have tried to copy a complete file heirarchy from one drive to a folder on another drive but found several files and folders are not being copied.
There is no report of files missed or any kind of error message.
I am actually trying to copy the contents of a friends hard drive onto a backup drive since he is getting a new computer and wants to ensure nothing
is lost. I have mounted his internal 2.5 sata drive in a caddy and am copying it to my computers second internal drive.
I expected not be be able to copy certain system files. I also expected I might not to be able to copy some of his personal files due to the standard
windows system protection (I am system administrator on my PC whereas of course he was administrator on his PC where the files and folders were
created which I thought might be an issue).
When I first tried to view some folders I was asked by the system if I wanted to allow permanent administrator priviliges to them (namely his personal
directory under "Users"). I replied yes and was thereafter allowed to descend into and view those files.
Now when I copy the entire heirarchy of some 35GB I find the new folder is only 15GB. It is not just down to any compression as I have confirmed that
there is only about 1/3 of the expected number of files to what was in the original.
I have since tried individually copying some of the sub-folders that were missed and they copy fine on their own. As you can imagine, trying to
identify what has copied and what has not is a mammoth undertaking.
Has anybody had similar experiences. I have really lost faith that any of my own existing backups or future backups actually contain all the files I
require.
Thanks in advance.
I have tried to copy a complete file heirarchy from one drive to a folder on another drive but found several files and folders are not being copied.
There is no report of files missed or any kind of error message.
I am actually trying to copy the contents of a friends hard drive onto a backup drive since he is getting a new computer and wants to ensure nothing
is lost. I have mounted his internal 2.5 sata drive in a caddy and am copying it to my computers second internal drive.
I expected not be be able to copy certain system files. I also expected I might not to be able to copy some of his personal files due to the standard
windows system protection (I am system administrator on my PC whereas of course he was administrator on his PC where the files and folders were
created which I thought might be an issue).
When I first tried to view some folders I was asked by the system if I wanted to allow permanent administrator priviliges to them (namely his personal
directory under "Users"). I replied yes and was thereafter allowed to descend into and view those files.
Now when I copy the entire heirarchy of some 35GB I find the new folder is only 15GB. It is not just down to any compression as I have confirmed that
there is only about 1/3 of the expected number of files to what was in the original.
I have since tried individually copying some of the sub-folders that were missed and they copy fine on their own. As you can imagine, trying to
identify what has copied and what has not is a mammoth undertaking.
Has anybody had similar experiences. I have really lost faith that any of my own existing backups or future backups actually contain all the files I
require.
Thanks in advance.