I’ve just purchased a 1TB Buffalo Turbo external hard drive.
Problem: my Seagate 320GB external hard drive has only about 20% free space
left. Is it possible to have these 2 drives on at the same time and
transfer direct from the Seagate EHD to the Buffalo EHD and so reduce
the transfer time considerably? Both supplied FAT 32 formatted and are
still so. Running XP Home SP3. Thanks - Andy

"Andrew" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just purchased a 1TB Buffalo Turbo external hard drive.
> Problem: my Seagate 320GB external hard drive has only about 20% free
> space
> left. Is it possible to have these 2 drives on at the same time and
> transfer direct from the Seagate EHD to the Buffalo EHD and so reduce
> the transfer time considerably? Both supplied FAT 32 formatted and are
> still so. Running XP Home SP3. Thanks - Andy

Having a 1 TByte partition under FAT32 is wasteful. If I remember correctly
then this means two things:
- Every file consumes at least 1 MByte, regardless of its size.
- The amount required disk space is always rounded up to the
nearest MByte.

You could use robocopy.exe
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en)
to copy your files, or else an imaging product such as Acronis TrueImage.