Best way to clone a non OS drive?

[Flash]

Long stort short...I'm getting new HDD and I want to copy the data from a HDD already installed. Drives in question are SATA and neither contain an OS

I realize I could just C&P files however, there is a problem. The one program folder I need to copy is is over 25 gigs and it is imperitive that I keep it intact. What is the size limit in XP to C&P a folder?

[athi]

i don't know of any limitation as long as the file system supports the file size (no issue with ntfs, 2gb with fat32). it just going to take a long time.

you can try using the manufacturer's cloning utility to clone the old hdd to the new hdd. this should be quicker than to copy thru winxp.

[Flash]

Yeah, you're probably right.
I'll DL the apropriate WD disk utility program.
I don't presently have any such utilities on hand as I pruchase all MY HDDs as OEM.

[dannyboy27]

AFAIK there are limitations to the lengths of file/folder names, and also the length of the file path (i.e. number of subfolder levels e.g.

c:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\folder5\folder6\folder7\folder8\folder9\folder10.... etc)

but there shouldn't be any limit to the size of the data, as long as there is sufficient disk space on the destination disk.