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Copying from one external hard drive to another

Dec 10, 2010 1:28AM PST

I plan to copy my record albums directly onto my desktop hard drive. I will then copy them onto an external hard drive. I would like to copy all of the files from the first external hard drive onto a 2nd external hard drive. Can this be accomplished? I don't want to keep the info on my desktop hard drive as it is not that large and I plan to erase it once I have it on the external hard drive. I don't have two external hard drives at this time but I have thought I could buy two and take turns loading the files onto each one,however I thought if I have an external hard drive with 300-500 or more gigs of music it would be easier to copy from one hard drive to another and I could give the one away to a friend who gave me the albums to begin with. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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The danger and if you follow this forum is
Dec 10, 2010 1:47AM PST

That externals are turning out to be less reliable than anyone expected. Sure, do what you want but be sure that anything that is not backed up is something you can lose.
Bob

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Copying from one external hard drive to another - New!
Dec 10, 2010 4:21AM PST

Thank you Bob for your response. I will take that into consideration as I proceed. However I still am not sure I can copy from one external hard drive to another. I assume I can simultaneously plug both into the USB ports on the desktop and then drop the files from the 1st external hard drive I have been saving to over the weeks into the 2nd external hard drive. Correct?
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Many have done that.
Dec 10, 2010 4:27AM PST
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Notable file managers.
Dec 11, 2010 10:36AM PST
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file manager utility
Dec 11, 2010 9:54AM PST
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copying from one external to another
Dec 13, 2010 11:29PM PST

Yep. Do it pretty regularly. I have several externals that I have multiple file back-ups and simply plug both into the laptop and copy away. Mostly one of those drives has an external power source and the other is USB powered, but once in awhile both are USB powered and that seems okay on my Toshiba laptop.