Error Copying Large File External Hard Drive
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The How-To Geek Forums Have Migrated to Discourse How-To Geek Forums / Windows Vista [Solved] Can't Copy Large Files to External HDD, NTFS, Vitsa (11 posts) Started 7 years ago by PDMayton Latest how to copy large files to external hard drive on mac reply from ScottW Topic Viewed 11506 times PDMayton Posts: 15 This post has been
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reported. Okay, I am at my witts end here. I tried to cut and paste about 150 GB of files (mostly .avi can't copy large file to external hard drive files) from one external to another via my vista laptop. When I did this it copied about 1/4 of the files and then froze. I restarted my laptop Vista "fixed" my problem through some prompt (I didnt cannot copy file to external hard drive really pay this any attention) and I then attempted to move about 10 GB at a time and it wouldnt allow me giving freezing or sometimes giving me an error. then I tried 1 file at a time (about 700 mB) with the same result. The files opened and played correctly, just would not let me cut/copy and paste. After this I decided to format the drive that ts was mostly empty and try again,
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copying from local hdd in my laptop. After I tried this It has ALWAYS froze with 10 seconds remaining....always at 10 seconds. It appears to start copying at normal speeds and the starts slowing with 20 secs remaining and then comes to a grinding halt with 10 secs remaining. Every HDD is NTFS and I can no longer copy and paste with my XP desktop. When I try it it says that my sectors are bad, but when I run chkdsk in XP or Vista it finds 0 bad sectors. I have also tried repairing drive in chkdsk. Please someone I am desperate, this problem is causing me to lose valuable data and rendering my exteranals ans paper weights! Reports: · Posted 7 years ago Top whs Posts: 17584 This post has been reported. Instead of Copy/Paste, try Copy to Folder... And whilst you are at it, install "Move to Folder..." too. Those are a lot handier than Copy/Paste. You may also first want to copy the files to the HDD and then to the other disk. It may be your USB that is fainting. Reports: · Posted 7 years ago Top PDMayton Posts: 15 This post has been reported. Thanks for the tip, but it didnt fix the problem. I have discovered that it always stops copying it
Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Can't Copy Large Files To My External Hard Drive?> Solved Can't Copy Large Files To My External Hard Drive? Tags: NTFS Storage External Hard Drive Last response: 11 March 2014 07:05 in Storage Share infiniteparadox 10 December 2013 03:26:50 how to transfer large files to external hard drive windows 7 The drive is nearly 1 TB in size, but it won't seem to let me copy a how to move large files to external hard drive file from my PC that is over around 4 GB's in size even though the drive is not even 10% full. Why is it doing this
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and how do I get it to stop? i've fomatted it to NTFS 5 times and still it doesnt work...... the copying process just stops....... More about : copy large files external hard drive kenrivers a c 191 G Storage 10 December 2013 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/cant-copy-large-files-to-external-hdd-ntfs-vitsa 03:42:41 If you check the drive in Disk Management does it show as being formatted as NTFS? Does anything pop up or does it just stop? Check under disk management and let me know what it shows and we will go from there. m 0 l Best solution popatim a c 1315 G Storage 10 December 2013 03:59:17 I had two thoughts initially - when the copy process stops, is the drive still visible in the system? - large files can seem to become non-responsive. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1922192/copy-large-files-external-hard-drive.html just let it go for however long t said it would take. I'm thinking the non-responsive thing might be your issue Share Related resources Can't Copy Large Files To My External Hard Drive problem.... - Tech Support copying large files to external hard drive - Tech Support Can copy and move files from external hard drive but I can't open them? - Tech Support Cant copy files from internal hard drive to external hard drive using linux - Forum can't copy large files to external media - Tech Support Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer infiniteparadox 10 December 2013 13:45:47 kenrivers said:If you check the drive in Disk Management does it show as being formatted as NTFS? Does anything pop up or does it just stop? Check under disk management and let me know what it shows and we will go from there. It says that it's the external hard drive is NTFS type it says " 931,51 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition) When it's starting to copy it just stops, i can see a tiny bit of the green thing, and when i click on "More Details" it says "Time Remaining: Calculating" and The speed is 0,00 MB/Second" but after i waited for a few min it changed to "3,87 MB/Second" and the "Time Remaining to 15 seconds" i've waited more than 15 seconds and it hasnt moved an inch..... a 8gb file doesnt copy in 15 sec... This hasn't happend to me before, the problem started when i tr
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