Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files

[scanlas]

Hello everyone hop eyou can help.

I just re-installed Windows XP Home and I am in the process of copying over all of my documents (music, images etc....)  I find that if I try copying the files from the DVD+R back onto my hard drive some of the files or the process freezes (not responding) up my pc.  I have been able to transfer some of the files but not all.

Any idea what is causing this?

[patio]

How are you trying to copy them ? ?
What file system are you using ...FAT32 or NTFS ? ?
Files or folders more than 4G in size will not co-operate...try doing smaller chunks.

[scanlas]

my HD is NTFS

I have tried transferring them in smaller chunks as small 20 MB.  some of the files work and some freeze XP up

[patio]

How are you trying to copy them ? ?

Post some specifics on the machine in question...

[TheEmperor]

Out of curiosity, why did you reinstall? If you were getting errors before you might have a hardware problem which is still present. A failing hard drive would exhibit the behavior your describe while trying to transfer files to it.