Best way to copy files from one drive to another and maintain correct dates?

[tracerit]

I'm going to move my files from a wd red 3tb to a Hitachi 3tb drive bit don't want to screw up the modified and created dates. This happened the last time I moved files and jsut copy /pasted them over.

Should I image the red hdd and restore to the Hitachi hdd?

 

[corkyg]

Yes, or clone the drive. That does not change dates.

 

[sdifox]

Fastcopy

 

[PliotronX]

Windows? Robocopy with /copyall will do well.

 

[ashetos]

SyncToy also works

 

[Elixer]

Direct clone is most likely the best way to handle this. The only time I wouldn't do a clone on a HD where I wanted files is if the HD was fragmented to hell, in that case, I would use a file copy utility that preserves dates.

 

[grimpr]

Fastcopy

This, imho the best copier for Windows by far, very fast and robust, time tested by copying multiterabytes of data across all mediums.

 

[tracerit]

Using Fastcopy now, working just fine thanks!

Scrapped the idea of cloning due to possible fragmentation of the files as mentioned above.