Move entire HDD content (music) to another, Moved from Audio Hardware Options

[Robocopchris]

Hello!

Im planning to replace an external hdd by another, bigger one.
Besides many files, the old hdd contents many audio files, merely flac, that i ripped from vinyls, many stuff i did by myself etc.
In other words, for me the files have a very high value.

Now, simply moving the content via win7 from one to another hdd makes me wonder, if there is the chance of any writing errors or anything like that.

As many times, when youre not very familiar with one topic I wonder, if theres a certain procedure "garanteeing" the best way to copy files with the danger of corruption etc.
Besides, this topic also regards this whole maintainance issue of digital information, like will my data some day get lost simple by being stored on a hdd?

Well this is a thing, I de be happy with to read some articles, if you know anything, Id be happy if ud share it.

At first I wondern, if this copy past thing is enough, am I just too hysterical, or is there certain information, that would help me out ?


Best regards
Chris

[g0a]

I’d recommend TeraCopy (with verify option) for the initial copy and ExactFile for regular verification.

[pablogm123]

I’d recommend TeraCopy (with verify option) for the initial copy and ExactFile for regular verification.

Thanks. I have found ExactFile very, very useful.

Robocopchris, a backup to another physical disc is imperative, in order to prevent losses of data (Natural disasters, user errors, virus, overvoltages...). Fortunately, FLAC encoder adds a MD5 signature to FLAC files. You can test FLAC files to discard corruption, by official FLAC tester FLACTester.exe. However, it can only detect corruption, it can't repair any damaged data (You need QuickPar/Multipar and recovery blocks for that).