Hi, Can I copy a 1tb external hdd to a 2tb external hdd and still use the remaining 1tb on the target 2gb hdd?
Via USB ports... Thanks, Len

if 2 drives are ok. there in no priblem to continue using them

The word "copy" is too generic to understand what you are trying to accomplish and thus providing advice.
What exactly are you trying to do?

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You could copy the 1TB partition to the 2TB, make another partition with remaing space and have 2 drive letters for the drive

or yould just copy off the stuff from the 1 TB to the 2TB and use the remaining space but that seems so obvious I think it is not what you mean.

Do you mean "clone" or "restore the 1TB image to the 2TB drive" ?

If you are referring to coping a healthy drive to another it will work. My preference is to use software such as Paragon http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/ so I can expand or contract partitions to fit new drive as needed. Drives with problems are not addressed with this type of product.

Hello,

if you will copy, then you can use remaining space on your 2TB drive.
if you will image drive, there are more scenarios
- you can image to new drive 1TB to 1TB and on remaining space you create new partition, or use software to partitioning from 1TB to 2TB
- or image from 1TB directly to 2TB partition