Question Transfer data from external drive to internal backup drive ?

[rgh43]

I need to transfer data from one hard drive to another easily & quickly. From an external drive to an Internal one. Any ideas how to do this faster than using the hi-lite copy to paste it into the drive Drag & drop any faster or any ideas other than spending a few hours watching my pc do it slowly. A few yrs ago I did copy my Hard with my operating system to my new M2 drive with no problems and it as I remember it was pretty quick. Don't remember the free download program I used to do that.

 

[Moonstick2]

You need to provide a lot more information: the drive you're copying from and the destination drive; what's on the destination drive already in terms of files and partitions and free space; the same for any other internal disks; how much data you're talking about; what kind of data it is (e.g. thousands of different files or a few large ones; what you have backups of.

The simplistic answer is that cloning is significantly faster than copy/paste; but it's also a lot easier to get wrong meaning needing to reinstall everything or even losing data permanently, so unless you know exactly what you're doing (and given you're asking the question in the first place...) you probably need specific instructions, which require all the above.