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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: scanlas on February 12, 2008, 07:00:33 PM

Title: Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files
Post by: scanlas on February 12, 2008, 07:00:33 PM

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?

Title: Re: Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files
Post by: patio on February 12, 2008, 07:06:32 PM

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.

Title: Re: Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files
Post by: scanlas on February 12, 2008, 07:11:43 PM

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

Title: Re: Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files
Post by: patio on February 12, 2008, 07:56:09 PM

Quote

How are you trying to copy them ? ?

Post some specifics on the machine in question...

Title: Re: Re-installed XP difficulty transferring files
Post by: TheEmperor on February 12, 2008, 08:20:33 PM

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.