Moving all hard drive files 4 folders up.

Hi,

I have 465gb of files and folders on a 500Gb hard drive that needs to be cut/pasted higher in the folder hierarchy.

Here's a visual:


The reason this happened is my HD broke down and I had to send it to a company (ChronoDisk) to extract the information to another HD. This is how they sent it.

I need to move those files because the path used by many programs/files are broken.

Is it possible to do this without actually cut/pasting? My guess is it might crash half way or simply not work at all because there is not enough empty space to make a cut.

Please help!

Thanks LuzTeTT but I'll wait to see if there's an easier way to do it.

Nice trollin' strollin. When you "cut/paste" in windows, what it actually does is "copy/paste/delete original". That means if you cut/paste 465Gb, you need at least 465Gb free on your hard drive.

Thanks TheCyberMan. It sucks but I've lost enough time with that company.

You will need to COPY that data to Another drive. There is NOT enough space left on that drive to move anything.

Alright, thanks for the help. I posted in case there was way to trick windows into just changing the path without the copy/paste aspect. I'm supposed to get another drive anyways...

If moving files within the same partition, Windows doesn't actually copy the files themselves over, just updates a reference on a directory table saying that those files are in a different location now. Not only you DON'T need any free space to perform the operation, but it also will be blazing fast, regardless of the amount of data there. Copying to a different disk is another matter. So, the simple cut-paste is the way to go.