Hello J8Stringer,

Yes, 1TB would be fine. You *should* be able to simply copy and paste. First, make sure that the power supplies for both your drives are firmly connected. Another tip - if you happen to have set hidden or protected files to be visible in Windows (control panel | folder options...), don't select these files when copying. (e.g. 'recycle bin', 'system volume information').

Note that this will take quite a while, especially if you are copying from one USB connected drive to another.

Here is an alternative to copy and pasting in Windows Explorer, if that is causing you problems for whatever reason:

1. Verify what drive letters the source and destination drives are. For example they might be G: and H:

2. Open a DOS window. On Windows 7 you can do this by clicking on the start menu and typing cmd in the search box.

3. Type the following and press <enter>. But replace "G" with whatever your source drive is, and "H" with your destination drive letter.
xcopy G:\* H:\ /E

The spaces don't show up well here. That is: xcopy <space> G:\* <space> H:\ <space> /E

-"/E" tells it to copy directories and subdirectories.

-for more information about the xcopy command, you can type:
help xcopy

-to cancel the operation, you can type ctrl+C

Last edited by Andrew - PG Music; 12/31/10 11:39 AM.
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