Best/fastest way to transfer large amount of files

[harbingerOTV]

Currently I have 3 hard drives. one has video, one has music and one is my C drive. Each of the media drives has about 20+/- gigs of files on them and I want to move them both to one drive. Last night I tried the windows way of just moving them over. After a seven hour nap, 1 movie had transfered. At that rate it would take about 15 days just for that one drive. Ugh.

I downloaded Copy Handler as it said it could work 6-7 times faster. 9 1/2 hour work day and it's 26% done of half the files (about 10). At this rate it's going to still take 3 1/2 days. Not fun.

i haven't even gotten to the music drive So all in all it's goig to take a good week to do this. That is 50% faster but still.

These are all IDE drives (my comp is pre SATA). Is there something else I can use to speed up this process? I've never used a ghost app before so I'm not sure if that would do what I want either. These are purely storage drives.

[oracleguy]

Are you sure you have your motherboard chipset drivers installed? If you don't, the drives won't run with DMA mode enabled (they will run in PIO mode) and in that case they will run mega slow. If you go into device manager and look at the properties of your hard drive controller it will say what mode the attached drives are running in. Also make sure DMA mode is enabled in your BIOS if there is a setting for that.

Also if you are using a 40-pin IDE cable, you will be limited to ATA/33 speeds. You need an 80-pin cable to get ATA/133. The connectors are the same, the wires are different.

It sounds like your drives aren't running at their full speeds.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Currently I have 3 hard drives. one has video, one has music and one is my C drive. Each of the media drives has about 20+/- gigs of files on them and I want to move them both to one drive. Last night I tried the windows way of just moving them over. After a seven hour nap, 1 movie had transfered. At that rate it would take about 15 days just for that one drive. Ugh.

I downloaded Copy Handler as it said it could work 6-7 times faster. 9 1/2 hour work day and it's 26% done of half the files (about 10). At this rate it's going to still take 3 1/2 days. Not fun.

i haven't even gotten to the music drive So all in all it's goig to take a good week to do this. That is 50% faster but still.

These are all IDE drives (my comp is pre SATA). Is there something else I can use to speed up this process? I've never used a ghost app before so I'm not sure if that would do what I want either. These are purely storage drives.
Up until a few days ago I've similar issues transferring large files with windows until lifehacker.com recommended TeraCopy which is free and integrates into windows quite well. I transferred 3.5gb within 2-4 seconds to a different harddrive. Any file you copy, cut, paste is handled with TeraCopy after installing it.

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

I use the free version and it does the job just fine.

[nikos101]

Up until a few days ago I've similar issues transferring large files with windows until lifehacker.com recommended TeraCopy which is free and integrates into windows quite well. I transferred 3.5gb within 2-4 seconds to a different harddrive. Any file you copy, cut, paste is handled with TeraCopy after installing it.

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

I use the free version and it does the job just fine.
hmm interesting , I'll give it a try

[harbingerOTV]

_Aero I grabbed that and it does seem faster. no where near the speed you got but all 21 files eta 7 hours. I can just start it up Monday when I go to work.

I did just notice that the HD I'm tranfering from is the slave on the same cable as my C drive. The new HD is the master on a cable plugged into a PCI extension board.

Could that be a real speed hinderer?

i can put the drives on the same cable if that will speed things up. I can actually plug the cable direct into the MB if that would help things as well.

My cable set up is as follows.

MB cable 1 - C and slave
MB cable 2 - 2 CD drives
PCI ext. - 2 HD

I wouldn't expect any issues using the PCI extension for the CD drives so if it would help. Yeah I'm not a hardware guy ;)

[harbingerOTV]

Me again,

I just hooked up my other HD and going to "my computer" it doesn't show it. Going to "add new hardware" it does show it. What's that mean? is it a dead drive?

[o0O0o.o0O0o]

Try downloading UBUntu desktop from the internet . Then you can run the linux from Cd without installing with all drives shown and then you can tranfer the data . May be some window program is causing the problem

My drives were also not showing and speed was very less .I did that way.
I transfered around 1TB in about 2 hours (approx).

Affter tranfering the data , try formatting the drives again ,Then your speed will be increased. It happened with mY USB dive . i formatted it and my speed becomes very fast

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Me again,

I just hooked up my other HD and going to "my computer" it doesn't show it. Going to "add new hardware" it does show it. What's that mean? is it a dead drive?

No its likely the jumpers are in the wrong place. If its an internal harddrive I would put the jumpers to cable select. Usually there is a little label next to the jumper pins that tell you what is what. With cable select you will need to put the primary hard drive (one with windows in it first on the cable and then the second one or make one primary and the other secondary.

Look in your bios to see if the other drive is being recognized.

[scoop_987]

erm... about the missing hard drive? have you partitioned and formatted it yet? Thats what sounds like the problem...