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Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd



 
 
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Old March 21st 10, 10:21 AM
Cammo7447 Cammo7447 is offline
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Default Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd

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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Old March 21st 10, 03:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
PvdG42
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Default Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd


"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!




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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.


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Old March 21st 10, 03:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
PvdG42
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Default Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd


"Cammo7447" wrote in message
...

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.


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Old April 6th 10, 07:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
kristain
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Default Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd

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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Old April 6th 10, 07:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
kristain
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Default Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd

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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