Possible to transfer files without losing 'created on' date?

I’ve recently begun to capture my home movie library on hard drive from video cam.  I have two external drives: an older 500Gb MyBook, and a new 2Tb My Book Live.  I also just installed a new Caviar Black 2Tb drive internally, to augment my 500Gb boot drive. 

I’ve found that:  1) I can’t capture the video directly to a network drive, only to internal drive.  2) when I move files from internal to external drive, I get a message that ‘if you proceed you will lose attributes’… when I do proceed most of the attributes carry over, but the ‘created on’ date is changed to current day/time. 

I prefer not to lose this data since I have a lot of video files and want to be able to sort them by date created.  I also want to put a copy of them on external drive for backup.  Is there any way to do that and maintain the ‘created’ date?  (BTW, I have tried both COPY and MOVE, with same result).

Thanks for any insights. 

I know that using windows backup, if you restore a file/folder on a new location it will retain the created date. There might also be other programs that allow you to do that but I don’t know any. :smiley: Let me know if it works.

As alucard says Windows backup will keep the create date, if you transfer manually it will change it to modify date.