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fire wire, map both drives cut and past Connect them both to the computer and copy the contents from one hard drive and paste it into the other. If you don't have enough USB interfaces ( connections) to connect them both then make a folder on your desktop and copy the files from the source hard drive into the folder on your desktop. Then connect the destination hard drive and move the contents from the desktop o your destination drive. From the Book on Hardware written by ME

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On most modern operating systems, just drag and drop the files or right-click on them and select Copy, then right-click in the destination drive and select Paste.

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Plug it into one of the USB ports, have the computer find it than download the files from it to the laptop.

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