Although “drive swapping” is unsupported, as you’ve found to be “beyond ludicrous” – here’s a rather painless backup - someone did the hard part. Just connect old drive > backup | connect new drive < restore
…would it see nearly as ludicrous to trust all your older recordings to a semi-proprietary device? on a single (aging) drive - in perpetuity? Isn’t this crazy?
Twenty years ago enormous capacity storage was cost prohibitive for consumer use.