Copy and Paste Failure - HDD lost

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:08 pm

Hello!

Would be great if I can get help here, because I tried almost everything.

I have a running XP Prof. and wanted to make a backup of all my Data on the Data Disk (200 GB HDD) from one partition on the other. During copy Windows broke up and said that it couldn't complete the action because there was somthing like a file access error. I tried to access this one folder and I couldn't open it.

Later on I restarted the computer and found out, that BIOS knows my harddrive but not WINDOWS or DOS.

I heard from an expert, that If you copy too many folders at once (I had about 55 GB on Document Files = about 200.000 Files) the Windows Explorer crashes or makes failues in the copy action. He said that I had to copy with Total Commander or copy little by little and not everything at once. I have NTFS File System.

PLEASE HELP ME!

HDD doesn't make any suspect noises and was brand new from Seagate Barracuda. I really don't think it crashed in hardware cause the problem was in COPY/PASTE Action in Windows Explorer.

MANY THXs!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:58 pm

Don't use explorer to copy files, it's stupid, if there's one single access error, it halts the whole thing. And when doing backups that can happen.

Use a program like syncback, that's what I use, it's great. It will only copy files that changed. (sort of like rsync in unix, but with a GUI)

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:44 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Don't use explorer to copy files, it's stupid,

I know that this copying is not very stabile. But I didn't think that that could happen. But whats now? How can I find my drive? Can anyone help?

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:44 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Don't use explorer to copy files, it's stupid,

I know that this copying is not very stabile. But I didn't think that that could happen. But whats now? How can I find my drive? Can anyone help?

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