I'm moving Marvel's Spider-Man 2 from my HDD to my SSD. The transfer has been running for about three hours and is currently at 37%, but the speed has dropped to 0 bytes per second and the progress hasn't changed. The process crashed earlier, so I restarted or continued it. Both drives seem to work normally because I have other games installed on the HDD. Could the transfer be stuck because some files were only partially copied, and would moving the remaining files into the existing folder still work?
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Try copying the game folder in smaller sections instead of moving everything at once. That can help identify whether one particular file is causing the transfer to stall and makes it easier to resume if something fails.
For a large transfer, Robocopy is usually more reliable than dragging the folder in File Explorer. It can retry failed files and continue from where it stopped. For example: robocopy "D:GameFolder" "E:GameFolder" /E /Z /J /R:3 /W:5. Replace the paths with your HDD and SSD locations, then verify the copied size before deleting the original.
An older HDD can still run games normally while having trouble with a large read operation or a damaged sector. Check the drive’s health and Windows error logs, and consider running a disk check. If the transfer repeatedly stops at the same file, that file or the source drive may be the problem.
Both drives seem to be working fine so far, but if part of the folder already copied, can I copy the remaining files into that same folder and have the game work?