Best Way To Copy Hard Drives on Win10

From an admin command prompt try XCOPY <Source Path> <Destination Path> /E /H

Run XCOPY /? to see all of the command options

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 switch which lists the files as they are copied.

Steve C said:

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 switch which lists the files as they are copied.

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.

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.

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