Today I had a question from one of my music pals Peter.
Please can you help I needed to backup my Windows 7 music files on drive D: to my new and freshly formatted Sata 500GB disc drive E: I used Windows 7 copy and paste the copy has been running for 12 hours and is no where complete. Finally I aborted the copy.
Windows copy performance was about 30mb per second.
Can I do something to increase the copy speed
ROBOCOPY
Hi Peter yes we can speed this up almost 100 times faster.
Microsoft have a command line tool called robocopy
Copy all of D: disk drive to E: drive and maintain dates created
Type in the following command line in a dos command prompt. To save time just copy and paste the following
robocopy D:\ E:\ /MIR /R:0 /W:0 /XD "$RECYCLE.BIN" "System Volume Information" "RECYCLER" /COPY:DT /DCOPY:T
(the dos command is available in All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt.)
An alternative program is RichCopy This simple tool was written by a Microsoft team named Derk Benisch and RICHCOPY Version 4.0 Developed by Ken [Kenzaburo] Tamaru
HoffmanUtilitySpotlight
Tech Net Magazine wrote a very good article
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
Utility Spotlight
RichCopy
Joshua Hoffman
The direct Download.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/0/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842/HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe
HoffmanUtilitySpotlight2009_04.exe (5,896 KB)
This simple graphical interface is simple to use and need no explanation.
I sometimes use Windiff.exe to compare the two disks but needs to be run in compatibily mode for Windows 7.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/159214
Good luck