Windows 10: Best Way To Copy Hard Drives on Win10

Discus and support Best Way To Copy Hard Drives on Win10 in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; There is the XCOPY /L switch which lists the files to be copied - this will be exceedingly long if copying an entire drive!!! There is also the /F... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by abrogard, Aug 12, 2016.

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  1. ROCKY
    Rocky Win User

    Best Way To Copy Hard Drives on Win10


    For me that keeps over 90,000 songs and over 30,000 photos on one drive, that would be a huge file. Drag and drop works wonderfully copying the contents of one drove to another.
     
    Rocky, Aug 13, 2016
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  2. NAVYLCDR
    NavyLCDR New Member

    I just used FreeFileSync to copy 1.5 TB of movies from network storage to USB 3 external drive and it did it in one 12 hour long session. Just make sure the sync is set for one direction only, source to destination.

    FreeFileSync - Free Backup and File Synchronization Software
     
    NavyLCDR, Apr 5, 2018
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