How to copy a external HDD without waiting for HOURS?

Hello @RingTailCoon,

RingTailCoon said:

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Nooooooonooooooooonoooo......... Nooooooo commandlines for me, keep them away from meee!!

Sorry, I was just trying to help!

RingTailCoon said:

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Nooooooonooooooooonoooo......... Nooooooo commandlines for me, keep them away from meee!!

Well then you're gonna be stuck in this rut forever. Pretty, commercial GUIs are not any guarantee of speed, in most cases they're simply just lipstick on a pig.

Don't get sucked into the just-click-and-it-will-happen hype. If you want things to happed to suit your requirements, you are the one that going to have to do some work.

Learn Windows inbuilt Robocopy, it's not hard.

EDIT : You don't have to "learn" anything. A bit of judicious search engine work will give you heaps of already composed command line copy-and-paste examples.

hdmi said:

FastCopy is a pig that can fly, which it can do either with lipstick or without.

Well, in the end this question has very little onformation e.g. type of usb port, amount of data, are both drives external which is source, what is target, what speed are you getting now.

I have more chance of giving the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything (answer is 6x9).

hdmi said:

FastCopy is a pig that can fly, which it can do either with lipstick or without.

Hardly a "pretty" GUI, and it's free (i.e. not commercial).

And also, it also works well.

So nowhere near the "lipstick on a pig" category.

RingTailCoon said:

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Nooooooonooooooooonoooo......... Nooooooo commandlines for me, keep them away from meee!!

For me, I use command lines for everything as possible, because:

• It can be run as bulk using script files
• It can be run scheduled (using Task Scheduler)
• It is easily to debug, spot problems, and fix problems (because you only changing the strings.
• And the best part, it is FREE and you have control to what you doing.