Best File Copy Utility ?

[zamarac]

Win Explorer is slow and resource heavy when copying files, frequently resulting in laptop drive overheating, errors and freezes, especially when copying very large files or folders with a lot of small files at once. What's the best file copy utility for Win98SE? It should be light on resources, very fast, allow Pause & Resume. Copying large files from / to network drives in parallel sessions each (similar to multi-segment parallel file downloads by Download Managers) is desired.

Edited April 7, 2009 by zamarac

[hjf288]

LOL resulting in drive overheating, errors and freezes?

Hardware problem, most likely to lack of cooling..

But try Teracopy, Burstcopy or Robocopy

[StealMySoda]

Erm. If your having issues with hd overheating, I'm not surprised running such an old system (either that or your running an old OS). Give XP and Vista (especially) transfer a try. But to be honest if your running a 10 year old HD, no wondering its crashing.

[+BudMan MVC]

This just reeks of SPAM..

1 post wonder asking about something, giving all the details of what the solution should do.. Let me guess in a day or so there will be another 1 post wonder with an answer, or even the same poster coming back saying they found the perfect solution with a link to software X.

The only thing that seems odd is the win98SE part -- Who and the F is still actively using that? I mean really???

[os2fan2]

File-Commander'/2 is small, and can fit on a cdrom. You can get it for OS/2 and Windows.

[Pablo2008jedi]

Whats the matter with Ctrl+c then Ctrl+v :p

[ckbeme]

Pabs,

I chuckled when I read the topic, but laughed Out Loud when I read your post. No Shxx. Maybe Ctrl C and Ctrl V didn't work on his version of windows 98

course, in a few years I might be the object of ridicule. I'm gonna stay on XP until Msft comes up with something better, and it ain't Vista. Asta La Vista, baby!

[Premgenius]

Robocopy

[ootput]

This just reeks of SPAM..

+1

Congrats on paraphrasing a software's description note (this explains the edits made) in the form of a question. For someone who's put up with outdated software (Win98,) he/she seems to require an awful lot of functionality out of a copying tool.

[i_was_here]

From their websites, these two seem to work on Win9x.

FastCopy - http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

SuperCopier - http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercopier/

[pasty2k2]

Buy a new computer. Seriously!

[redvamp128]

Buy a new computer. Seriously!

Basically -- he is running Parallels -- so that tells me he is running Win98SE in a Virtual Environment which in that things are emulated and not real hardware. So I don't even know if any program will upgrade the speed. Possibly may be fixed in a Parallels Update.

I run into similar issues for it being slow-- On my NT4SP6a V-M. Though I have a Windows ME virtual for my 9x and it still is slow- I use virtual box.

[soldier1st]

Buy a new computer. Seriously!

or better yet replace win 98 with XP, i gave up on win9x years ago, it was good in it's days but not now.

[jingarelho]

Teracopy. I use it for more than a year now. you can find it here

and it free.

[i_was_here]

^ Doesn't work on Win9x afaik. Its good for 2K/XP/Vista though.

[hjf288]

http://www.burstcopy.com/

But still resurrecting an old thread >_<