Replacing V drive

11/17/2011 The 1TB drive(V:)I use for my photo, video and other content is showing up as having too many moved sectors. The disk monitoring system (SMART) has tagged it is being ready to fail. I did some research as to what is really happening, and decided that the smart thing to do is replace it before it fails. To make this as easy as possible, I am copying all of the files to the M: drive, which is my multimedia backup drive. The Camera-buf directory is already there (M:\Camera_buf\) because of the idle time robocopy backup I have had set up for a long time. The remaining directories are:

• a1276837db1e9979ad8 (I don't remember what this is. Something to do with windows .net)
• Database-files (work in progress on my planned photo identification web site)
• DVD-images (images of family DVDs)
• Family Video Clips (work area for family video clips I have on the web)
• Kindle (backup of my Kindle from a couple of weeks ago when I had to get a new one)
• Movie Maker Work Area (currently empty)
• music (A few music files, including Stacey's recordings and rips of some of my CDs)
• Nikon (mostly Capture NX cache data)
• ohsu-xrays (X-rays from Andrea's back surgery)
• Packages (Files used by National Instruments LabView)
• Podcasts (Radio program podcasts)
• Web Site Files (A backup copy of my web site public_html directory plus the graphic files I have uploaded to my wiki and information about my robotics team's web site)

There is enough room on M:, so I am copying these to M:\rest_of_v\

this stuff is also backed up under CrashPlan, both locally on the X: drive and on the CrashPlan server, but making this copy will make bringing up a new drive easier.