Computer Help and Support

I know that no one is losing sleep over this, but I thought I'd give an update.

I manually copied the directories a few at a time. Some choked and I had to switch to transferring files in groups, and I found the reason for the unsuccessful transfer was that a few files were written on bad sectors and could be neither read or copied. I changed settings to "ignore and continue" and the rest went off without a hitch.

I compared the directories with the very useful (and free!) app "WinMerge" to verify that nothing was forgotten. The only files not transferred were the corrupted ones, but they were either files that were unimportant or ones I had back-ups for.

I changed the drive letters around (which was a pain because windows hides the settings for this), and rebooted.

All went well, programs that were moved still worked. The next day my old drive failed hard and had to be removed from the computer. I had finished just in time.

Many thanks to everyone. Even if I didn't reply to your input it was read and appreciated.