Posted: 10/18/2025 7:41:51 PM EDT
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I currently have a hard drive that is almost full. I've labeled it Z. On this drive, I have a lot of video files (in the high hundred to low thousands) that are all part of larger video projects in Davinci Resolve. If I rename a folder, it gives me a media offline error. There is a way to reconnect these files within Resolve but I haven't had much luck with it. I'm planning to pick up a new hard drive Monday and I want to migrate all of the video files to it but I don't want to have to re-link each file with the video projects I've worked on. Could I rename the current drive to something else, add the new drive and label it Z, copy everything to the new Z drive and proceed without any issues? Or am I setting myself up for a lot of work over the next couple weeks without any simple solution? I prefer to keep everything on one drive for ease of finding everything and for when I eventually build a new PC, to just slap the drive in there and keep cooking. If I haven't explained this very well, I apologize. I know just enough to be dangerous. I did build this computer if that helps. It's a Ryzen 3600X on a B450 motherboard with a 500GB M.2, 1TB HDD, and 32GB RAM (I think) and 6900XT GPU. It's not a hot rod but it is getting the job done for now. When I built it, I didn't think I would ever fill the hard drive. Now that I've started with the videos, it filled up fast. Thank you for any advice. |
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Budget? Is this a work thing, like, you lose money if it goes wrong? Do you have a boot drive? So you can remove the Z: drive while being able to boot? Here is what I would do (and, you waited too long to start, but whatever...), get an external drive enclosure that can handle your current drive. DO NOT take your current drive out of the machine. Get a new, much larger drive and put it in the enclosure. Get all this running and spend the time to copy your data off the Z: drive. Pull both the Z: drive and the new drive. Put the Z: drive on a shelf in a safe place. Put the new drive in the box and verify you can read write. Verify you can open and view the files. Pick one in ten and actually view them. (This is to verify you don't already have drive corruption and you got good data off the Z: drive.) If everything works, you can now rename the new drive to the Z: drive. (Though, figure out how to not need to do this, there is no reason for this. Every software package that uses fixed paths can also help you find them again.) Leave the Z: drive on the shelf, wrap it carefully in the non-static bag that came with your new drive. Now, here is the hard part, buy a second new drive. Put it in the enclosure. Start doing regular backups If you are making money with this, get a NAS and start using that for backups. Use the enclosure to make off-site backups of your current "they haven't paid me yet" projects. Good luck. |
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So, you're telling me there's a chance?  I do have a boot drive, the M.2. I didn't consider doing it the way you laid out but I think that's a better plan. As far as adding a backup drive, that's not really in the cards at the moment. I have a few other things I need to pick up first but I could do it in a couple weeks, possibly. The good news is there shouldn't be too many new files added for now so the current drive can be used as the back up. Thank you for the advice. |