Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd

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Cammo7447

Hi all,



recently I have been trying to back up all my movies pics etc to a

Lacie 1tb external hdd. We have had it for a while, it worked fine for

a month, then we started experiencing difficulties with it and it

remained in the too hard basket until now.



Basically, I am running vista home premium

premium on a Dell inspiron 6400 with 2gig ram (bought separately to

improve performance). When when copying files to the hdd windows simply

freezes. Anyone know of a fix for this? It's driving me nuts!









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Cammo7447
 
"Cammo7447" wrote in message

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>

> Hi all,

>

> recently I have been trying to back up all my movies pics etc to a

> Lacie 1tb external hdd. We have had it for a while, it worked fine for

> a month, then we started experiencing difficulties with it and it

> remained in the too hard basket until now.

>

> Basically, I am running vista home premium

> premium on a Dell inspiron 6400 with 2gig ram (bought separately to

> improve performance). When when copying files to the hdd windows simply

> freezes. Anyone know of a fix for this? It's driving me nuts!

>

>

>

>

> --

> Cammo7447



What happens if you try to copy the same size/number files to the external

drive from a different PC/OS? That test would exonerate or convict the drive

itself.
 
PvdG42906156 Wrote:

> "Cammo7447" Cammo7447.5ebaaa3@vistabanter.com wrote in message

> news:Cammo7447.5ebaaa3@vistabanter.com...-

>

> Hi all,

>

> recently I have been trying to back up all my movies pics etc to a

> Lacie 1tb external hdd. We have had it for a while, it worked fine

> for

> a month, then we started experiencing difficulties with it and it

> remained in the too hard basket until now.

>

> Basically, I am running vista home premium

> premium on a Dell inspiron 6400 with 2gig ram (bought separately to

> improve performance). When when copying files to the hdd windows

> simply

> freezes. Anyone know of a fix for this? It's driving me nuts!

>

>

>

>

> --

> Cammo7447-

>

> What happens if you try to copy the same size/number files to the

> external

> drive from a different PC/OS? That test would exonerate or convict the

> drive

> itself.



I cant say that ive tried... ill get back to you...









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Cammo7447
 
I was also facing the same problem. I completely restore Vista partition. However, in the middle of the restore from USB Hard disk drive, the backup complained about faulty archive and I ended up with no working C: partition. I reinstalled Vista and almost all the programs. However, as the reinstall started from a situation, where there was empty space instead of C:, I noticed only after the install that Vista had set the BCD boot files to D:, while the Vista is quite correctly installed to the recreated C:





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