Maybe a dumb question. But is this just a matter of copying over? I have 6 hdds I’ve accumulated and want all the data from them on one big drive now. They are all ntfs as they are from windows, but I am going to boot from my mint drive to move the files, just so windows isnt running or accessing anything on the drives while I move the data. I’m transitioning to full linux, but I want to consolidate these drives first. I dont want to clone drives, so no dd here, just copying files from 6 different drives onto 1.
You could just as easily (well, almost) copy them.in Windows.
There shouldn’t be any in-use conflict issues with files you’re trying to copy, that only happens with open files, and protected operating system files (which you shouldn’t have to copy).
I use Robocopy every few days to keep about 4TB of data in sync.