Windows 10: Copy images files from old hard drive to another

I found an old hard drive which I want to format, not before I transfer all the photos there,
It's just that it's so old I wanted to know if there's a faster way than to search for them.
Maybe there's a way to find all images files (jpeg, png) and copy them?

ty

:)

 

Copy OS to new drive on Windows 10

Forget the useless 'Microsoft Support Engineer.'

What you want to do is accomplished with disk imaging software.

A disk image is an identical copy of a hard drive, stored in a single file. With disk imaging software, you can create an identical copy of your old SSD and copy it to your new SSD. This is the only way to copy the entire contents of a Windows system drive
to another hard drive.

New hard drives from the major manufacturers usually include disk imaging software and instructions for using it.

Replacing hard drives is a routine procedure and it's quite safe. However, it is complicated. Do some research on the web and get comfortable with the process before you start. I'm sure you'll have no trouble.

 

How to transfer program files between computers

I personally use Macrium reflect to image my laptop then when I clean install I can mount the image (after installing Macrium) & copy all my personal files back to the pc. This would also work the same when transferring files from one pc to another.

The other way would be to remove the hard drive from the old pc & place it into a hard drive caddy & plug it in to the new pc to move files that way.

 

Using Robocopy from a command prompt is probably the easiest way. Say your old drive is H: and you want to copy all photos you can find on H: into D:\photos - then open a command prompt and type:

robocopy H:\ D:\photos *.jpg *.jpeg *.png /s

Note there are two alternative extensions for 'jpegs'. The /s option will copy all subdirectories containing your chosen image file types and create copies of the files and directories under D:\photos (it will be necessary to create the same directory structure if two images from different folders share identical names). You could usefully add other image file types if you wish *.tiff, *.bmp and *.raw for example.

 

Good idea. I was thinking of suggesting XCOPY but the above seems better.

 

Yes, XCOPY would work too. I'm old enough to remember when it was first introduced in DOS 3.2 and I've been using it ever since. RoboCopy came in with Windows 7 and is much more powerful, but XCOPY is still there if you prefer.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../ee851678.aspx

 

It would be easy if you assigned all your image folders the the pictures library. Libraries were added in Windows 7 to be able to store like files in separate folders but view them at the same time.

 

Yes, but the OP doesn't want to keep the old drive permanently attached. They want to retrieve all images from the old drive before reformatting it and using it for something else.