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Default External hard drives...

On 06/11/2020 14:29, Tim Streater wrote:
On 06 Nov 2020 at 12:22:43 GMT, "Jim GM4 DHJ ..."
wrote:

I have all my stuff on a 1tb external drive....yesterday I bought
another to back it up...doing it at the moment and it says it will take
three and a half hours is this correct or is there a quicker way of
transferring ?


Unless you give us some ****ing DETAILS we'll just watch and larf at you.


usual professional computer engineer attitude.....

Is this just a drag/drop copy? How much stuff are you copying? Are you using a
backup program to do this? What sort of ports are the two drives connected
to?

And so on.


who cares

You remind me of this geezer at CERN who used some software I wrote. He'd put
his head round the door and say "It doesn't work". My reaction was to adopt a
look of extreme concern and say "Oh DEAR! Your poor wife - have you been to
the Doctor about it?"


good fun isn't it I used to do that when I worked in Building
control....great fun taking the **** out of lower non professional
mortals isn't it....so **** off...tee hee