Jume

just as a little info, i did exactly the same (move big quantity of pictures
from xp to another partition), though most of them were ok, i lost a
complete trip, and over 80% of other misc images that were not photos (and
they are redownloadeable, tx god lol)

curiously, the corrupted images (in the case of the trip, literally
nonexistant, xp did not even copied them, it did just only created the
folder structure and no more), were OUT of "my pictures"

my advice, when moving big quantities of pictures, to every one that want to
move pictures over different partitions with xp (tried with vista and did
not happened, but may as well take the same advice): DONT MOVE, COPY, and
until you are sure they are copied fine, not even think on erasing the
"originals", moreover, do a 2nd copy somewhere else