Fast way to copy info?

Does anyone know a quicker way to copy info from one external HD to another?? It's a pretty big HD, 250GB to another one the same size, but its taking FOREVER and i've heard there's a faster way to do it besides copy/paste. Anybody?

 

you could create a boot floppy, boot into DOS and use the command "xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* s/h/e/v" where c:\ is the original and d:\ is the new harddrive.

The flags copy subdirectories and their contents, hidden and system files, empty directories, and verifies the data.

This will make the copy faster but how much faster i dont know. Seen as your using an external HD its going to take a long time anyway you do it.