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"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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On 06 Nov 2020 at 12:22:43 GMT, "Jim GM4 DHJ ..."

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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.

Is this just a drag/drop copy?


why should whether you dragged it or not, make any difference to a
disk-to-disk copy. It only makes any difference for a directory to
directory copy on the same disk