I have drive A: with 16G Space and plenty of files, due to the Hard-link feature in NTFS, the files together is 15G but only takes 2G of real space.
I like to copy all those files to drive B: which is a 4G USB disk, and formatted as NTFS
A: is a tool set in local disk, B: is USB disk for distribution. So I cannot use a bigger USB disk (for the reason of cost), and B: should have all files that can work on another computer.
I tried: robocopy, rsync of windows, and plenty of other disk-clone, backup solution etc.
None work, all simply give out of space error.
My question: how can I copy the files from A: to B: and keep of the hard-link structure?
Any solution welcome, as long as not reboot to non-windows or something. I am using Windows 7.
Best Answer
Have you tried ln.exe with "Smart Copy" function
--copy
?