(Need Help) copied my external drive to my desktop win10 pc..


  1. Posts : 7
    Win10 PRO
       #1

    (Need Help) copied my external drive to my desktop win10 pc..


    ..and 10+GB is missing!? I just want everything to copy over.. Why is this happening? And each retry seems to be even less!
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  2. Posts : 13,898
    Win10 Version 22H2 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home
       #2

    Keep in mind there's always a difference between the actual size of data and the size used on the HDD. It has to do with the cluster size chosen when formatting the HDD or a partition, the larger the cluster size and the smaller size of files will create 'slack' space [wasted space] and there's nothing that can be done about that. Regardless of the file size it will take 1 or more clusters for a file and if a file is too large it will take more clusters. Cannot put 2 files in the same cluster otherwise there will be data corruption and lose the file/s. If have a large number of small files a small cluster size choice would be okay but requires reformatting. The default for NTFS is 4096KB so if you have a 760Byte icon file it wastes quite a bit of space.
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  3. Posts : 7
    Win10 PRO
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Berton said:
    Keep in mind there's always a difference between the actual size of data and the size used on the HDD. It has to do with the cluster size chosen when formatting the HDD or a partition, the larger the cluster size and the smaller size of files will create 'slack' space [wasted space] and there's nothing that can be done about that. Regardless of the file size it will take 1 or more clusters for a file and if a file is too large it will take more clusters. Cannot put 2 files in the same cluster otherwise there will be data corruption and lose the file/s. If have a large number of small files a small cluster size choice would be okay but requires reformatting. The default for NTFS is 4096KB so if you have a 760Byte icon file it wastes quite a bit of space.
    That's good info, but I don't think that explains why the total number of files and folders differ between the original and the 2 copies (see attachment)..

    Also, how can I easily compare the folders and spot the differences? I've got beyond compare 4 but I didn't figure out how to use it yet.. Is there an easier way?
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  4. Posts : 5,478
    2004
       #4

    Perhaps you are not authorized to some of the files you are trying to copy?

    You could try to copy it with robocopy and it can generate a log file saying what if failed to copy.

    This command would copy drive D to a folder called "500GB drive backup" on your desktop and make a logfile called copylog.txt also on your desktop.

    Code:
    robocopy d:\ "%userprofile%\desktop\500GB drive backup" /copyall /e /r:0  /log:%userprofile%\desktop\copylog.txt
    You'll get a log something like this saying what it couldn't copy and why:
    Code:
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       ROBOCOPY     ::     Robust File Copy for Windows                              
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
      Started : 29 December, 2015 11:35:17
       Source : d:\
         Dest : C:\Users\Hali\Desktop\500GB drive backup\
    
        Files : *.*
    	    
      Options : *.* /S /E /COPYALL /R:0 /W:30 
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    	  New Dir          1	e:\
    	    New File  		 200.0 m	pagefile.sys
      0.0%
      0.5%
      1.0%
     99.5%
    100%  
    	  New Dir          0	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-1027584776-2358194297-2548917410-1001\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2602478595-2806783560-1643973225-1001\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3178208141-977810998-1597272411-1001\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3244269357-763748866-2916749009-1009\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3536341058-2341531926-3888982254-1001\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          1	e:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3536341058-2341531926-3888982254-500\
    	    New File  		     129	desktop.ini
      0%  
    100%  
    	  New Dir          0	e:\10\
    	  New Dir          3	e:\System Volume Information\
    	    New File  		      76	IndexerVolumeGuid
    2015/12/29 11:36:48 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File e:\System Volume Information\IndexerVolumeGuid
    Access is denied.
    
    
    	    New File  		   20480	tracking.log
    2015/12/29 11:36:48 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File e:\System Volume Information\tracking.log
    Access is denied.
    
    
    	    New File  		      12	WPSettings.dat
    2015/12/29 11:36:48 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File e:\System Volume Information\WPSettings.dat
    Access is denied.
    
      0%  
     30%  
     60%  
     91%  
    100%  
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
                   Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
        Dirs :        14        14         0         0         0         0
       Files :        17        14         0         0         3         0
       Bytes :  205.70 m  205.68 m         0         0    20.0 k         0
       Times :   0:01:30   0:00:00                       0:00:00   0:01:30
    
    
       Speed :           1191569016 Bytes/sec.
       Speed :            68182.126 MegaBytes/min.
       Ended : 29 December, 2015 11:36:48
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  5. Posts : 1,778
    Windows 10 Pro,
       #5
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  6. Posts : 17,661
    Windows 10 Pro
       #6

    Rocky said:
    For new SyncToy users, this excellent tutorial on our sister site the Seven Forums helps to get started with it: SyncToy - Windows 7 Help Forums
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