[Phalanx-Imawano]

Anyone else here who has to manage really huge numbers of files in their system? Though this rarely happens to me, I'm experiencing this quirk while migrating my files to a newly installed hard disk. One of my folders is a repository for a HUGE number of images (from .jpg to .png and a few .bmp), around 40GB worth (around 100,000+ files). If I try to copy the whole folder (just by normal coping in Windows Explorer), at a certain point during the copy process Windows just hangs (as in freezes), forcing me to do a hard reset. I'm suspecting it's due to Windows Explorer's tendency to try and generate thumbnails of all those pictures (I don't get this problem copying/moving other types of files such as video clips, .wav, .mp3, or other types). Any other idea what's going on?

As an interim I'm trying out Windows Backup to move the files (i.e. backup the folder with all those image files to an archive, then "restore" the archive into the new hard disk).

[Sampson]

Have you tried Xcopy from the command prompt: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true