i've got some new hardware coming this week and i'm planning on buying a bigger hard drive than my two puny 60gb's and i don't really have a way to backup my files other than burning to dvd's, which takes a long time and costs money. so i was thinking i could move everything i wanted on to one of my hard drives and delete everything i don't need, take it out, format my new drive and 1 other 60, or both i suppose, not sure, and then use this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812118401 to transfer my backed up files. would that cord work for what i want to do, connect an internal ide hard drive via usb to put files onto another drive? would windows pick up that external hard drive just fine? could i format that backup drive as well when i'm done using it and then use all 3 in my compy?
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using my internal HDD to backup for format.
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Any reason why you couldn't just have all three hard drives in your system at once and transfer the files you need over to the new drive?
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Nope. I use rsync when I do that sort of mass filecopy, and run it twice to make sure that it transfers everything right. I know, I know, ecc this and redundant that, but I still copy&compare...
