How to back up my external hard drive to another hard drive?

So I dropped my external Iomega 1TB hard drive and now it wont allow me to back anything up however I can thankfully access everything in there. Basically I read that I need to back THAT up and format it and start from scratch. I sucked it up and finally bought a second External Hard drive a Seagate 1.5TB (great deal at costco BTW for $79). So now I connected both to my MacBook and tried to copy everything in my iomega to paste it to the seagate and I got the error message "The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup." What does that mean? How do I do this efficiently?
I greatly appreciate any info! Thanks in advance!!!

I've not seen that error message but did you partition and format the new hard drive for use with Macs? It needs to be partitioned with the GUID scheme and formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled. If you have a lot of data on the original drive it's best to not try to copy it all at one time, of there are separate folders copy them one or two at a time. If your original drive is a Time Machine drive it's more complicated than simply copying and pasting http://pondini.org/TM/18.html

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