Re: Ok, this is a dumb problem.... ran out of disk space and....
2017/09/30 14:30:16
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The best way to transfer the contents of one disk to another is to simply copy everything over just as it is. That can take a long time if there’s a lot of data so may be best to start the copy then let it run overnight.
Do not delete anything off the smaller drive until you are sure the copies are good. In fact you should be backing up everything you do to a backup drive whenever you work on it. A drive can fail in seconds or develop bad sectors that make some data unreadable. Without a backup regime you have lost that data for ever unless a recovery service can get it back. And drive recovery services charge a lot of money and don’t always get back all the data either.
I don’t know if it works on Win10 but Microsoft’s free Sync Toy was excellent for doing that sort of backup job and could be scheduled to run overnight or when the computer isn’t in use. There are other backup and file copy and verification applications that can do the job as well.
As for the original disk, when a disk is full, it’s full. Which means something has to be deleted to get space back or it’s time for a new drive.
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