400+ Gb aperture 3 library 200 (!) hours to transfer?

Hi, I have a 400+GB aperture library on an USB2 external h-d. Have tried to move to another larger external h-d but the estimated time for transfer kept escalating. I gave up when the estimate got over 200 hours! Can I try breaking the library into smaller chunks somehow? Or is there some other work around.
I realize that (a) I didn't know enough about Aperture to start with (and still don't--it has overwritten some photo files which is supposedly impossible so I have been afraid of changing anything as long as it was working but now I have no choice), (b) this question about moving large libraries has no doubt been answered elsewhere (I can't be the only one with this problem) but I couldn't find it.
This has become urgent because my Time Machine hard-drive has failed and there is something going wrong my Firewire ports in my iMac so I am stuck with USB2 transfer rates for my Aperture Library. (Actually it was even worse than that, I have only saved my Aperture Library by cloning the FW drive it was on to the USB drive where it now resides).
Any ideas?

Have tried to move to another larger external h-d but the estimated time for transfer kept escalating. I gave up when the estimate got over 200 hours! Can I try breaking the library into smaller chunks somehow? Or is there some other work around.
Trigance,
You can "export projects as library" to "break up" the library. However, I don't know if this will accomplish too much. If you have a library that is X gigabytes, and divide it into 10 parts, you will still have to copy X gigabytes to achieve your goal of putting it all on another drive.
How are you copying the Aperture library? Do you have any programs running while you are doing this? In particular, any programs that use your external drive? How about Time Machine? Your profile does not indicate what OS you are using, but I imagine that if TM is set to back up your external drives (or to one of them), that it will slow things down like crazy if you are trying to copy a huge collection of files.
That being said, I do not know if 200 hours is unreasonable. It sounds like it, but I have no previous experience with your scenario to know how long it would take to funnel all that data from a slow external drive to a different slow external drive. How about connecting each drive to a different group of USB ports? Perhaps if they are connected in adjacent ports they are being run by the same USB controller, and that is slowing things down? Just an idea. No real basis for thinking that will change anything.
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