Hello,

I have a fully synced and working download of the blockchain on an external hard drive and just want to move it all to a brand new external hard drive (as the old one has started making a click click death is imminent noise!). I thought it would be super simple bit am having problems.

I copied the whole bitcoin folder (containing blocks, chainstate etc) to the new external hard drive, started up BitcoinCore and pointed it at the new directory. I expected it to carry on as normal but it is trying to sync the whole blockchain again.

Why is it trying to sync all over again. Have i done something wrong. Am i bad person.

I have a garbage laptop and it took about 2 weeks of it being on 24 hours a day to sync last time, please dont make me do that again...