Guest Andrew Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 I’ve just purchased a 1TB Buffalo Turbo external hard drive. Problem: my Seagate 320GB external hard drive has only about 20% free space left. Is it possible to have these 2 drives on at the same time and transfer direct from the Seagate EHD to the Buffalo EHD and so reduce the transfer time considerably? Both supplied FAT 32 formatted and are still so. Running XP Home SP3. Thanks - Andy
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Re: How to copy fast to 1TB hard drive "Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0352F5CD-99C6-4BB2-841C-FF9E2C4825BB@microsoft.com... > > I've just purchased a 1TB Buffalo Turbo external hard drive. > Problem: my Seagate 320GB external hard drive has only about 20% free > space > left. Is it possible to have these 2 drives on at the same time and > transfer direct from the Seagate EHD to the Buffalo EHD and so reduce > the transfer time considerably? Both supplied FAT 32 formatted and are > still so. Running XP Home SP3. Thanks - Andy Having a 1 TByte partition under FAT32 is wasteful. If I remember correctly then this means two things: - Every file consumes at least 1 MByte, regardless of its size. - The amount required disk space is always rounded up to the nearest MByte. You could use robocopy.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en) to copy your files, or else an imaging product such as Acronis TrueImage.
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