Best/Fastest way to Transfer one external 2tb drive to a replacement 2tb drive ???
 

Long story short it is on its way out and still under seagate 5 year warranty so instead og going through the USB bus.... is there anyway for a external without physically opening em to do a speedy content swap? Clone the drive possibly??

Also the drive is lettered E right now the new one Windows will assign a new letter.... anyway on hell on Win 7 to have the new drive the same letter?/


-JDL

no usb3? thats quick

that is a coin toss as the new HD replacing it initially will be assigned next letter inline and the OG drive still has the letter reserved.. I ran into this issue years ago as well... I came up with no resolution at the time

I have a 650gb WD external that won't boot properly, so if/when I get the laptop to recognize it - I'll be dumping it to a new 2tb external. Same issue you're having. Wish I had an answer ATM.

I was thinkin' of simply having to go through the USB2.0 and going for a pizza while it copies.

Yeah i might be doing the same ...."TeraCopy" i found supposed to help a bit in speed n duplicate crap... seems good if doing usb to usb