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jaki:
Here's the deal. I've filled up my external hard drive and I'm going to be getting a new one. When I get the new one I'm going to be transfering all the data from my old drive on to the new one. The old drive has a LOOOOT of stuff on it. The reason for the transfer is because its formatted in FAT32 and i'm going to reformat it as NTFS. Anyways the question is, should I par2, or MD5 the entire drive before I transfer all the information, or is it unlikely that the transfer will corrupt the files?

DaggerLite:
It is very unlikely that you'll corrupt any files, unless you stress the drives more than necessary (e.g. download to the receiving disk while moving). If you really want to be sure, CRC32 (.sfv) should cover corruption of such relatively small files, but I think it'll be a waste of time.

My points:

1) The only times I've (knowingly) encountered corrupt data have been when downloading under a stressed system, recovering previously deleted files or burning a DVD too fast.
2) Original checksums can be nice to have for files that will be stored over a longer period. I personally store checksums per anime, but I've never really used them. "Nice to have" is my mindset.

jaki:
can sfv repair corrupted files, or just verify the integrity or the file?

DaggerLite:
It just verifies.

kureshii:
If you're doing the transfer in Windows, just use Teracopy. It does CRC checks before and after the move/copy to ensure data corruption doesn't occur during the transfer process.

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