Upgrading D (Data) HDD

bug67 said:

Greetings.

I recently purchased a 2 TB HDD to upgrade from my rapidly filling 1 TB Data drive. My set up is I have Windows installed on a separate SSD (C). I am wondering if its just a matter of dragging and dropping the data on the 1 TB drive to the new 2 TB drive or do I need to clone it? The D (Data) drive is where I install my games, photos, videos, music, etc. System info below. Thanks.

Windows 10 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.693)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
MB: ROG STRIX B450-F BIOS VER: 3003
RAM: 16 GB GDDR 4 @ 3200 MHz
Boot Drive (C): Intel SSD (250 GB)
Data Drive (D): WDC (1TB)

Make sure that whatever method you use to migrate everything that you change the drive letter of the old drive to something other than D and the new drive is assigned D or your games won’t run.

I agree with the others. There is one particular aspect of RoboCopy that makes it particularly suitable - it preserves folder-file creation dates and this can be handy for future reference.

Example -

Code:

RoboCopy N:\SomeOldDataDriveFolders D:\SomeNewDataDriveFolders /E /MIR

You can get the RoboCopy Help file in any command prompt window by entering robocopy /?
- see also RoboCopy - SS64

Denis

Thanks. I'll let everyone know how I get along.

- - - Updated - - -

So, 2 hours into the transfer, I keep running into this:

Code:

New File              291840        bink2winrt_x64.uni10.dll2020/03/09 15:34:09 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying File e:\WindowsApps\Microsoft.ApolloBaseGame_1.174.4791.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\bink2winrt_x64.uni10.dllAccess is denied.Waiting 30 seconds...

First time I ran robocopy, I didn't run console as admin. This time I did and I'm still hitting the "Access is denied" brick wall. I've also tried taking ownership of the offending folder to no avail. At a loss as to what to do next.

bug67 said:

Do you have a solution?

Is \Windowsapps a user-created data folder, or part of the installation?