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Hi,
I have recently re-copied almost all of my music, and realised today that i had not done a backup in a while. I connected my external drive (a freecom 500 gb 'classic'), and started to the files across. After about 12 Gb of files had copied, windows explorer reported an error and stated that the source file 'could no longer be found in directory x/x/x'. I checked using winamp to ensure the files were still there, and they were (well, music played!), so i stated again from where it left off. The same thing happened again, so i restarted the machine. However, upon retrying, it wouldnt even begin the copying process - the little vista 'time remaining' screen appeared, before quickly giving the message 'not responding'. Explorer.exe was then ended, and failed to restart, leaving my no choice but to do a manual restart of the whole PC. I then tried the drive on another pc int he house, which failed to detect it as a usb device, and for some reason, was unable to shut down after having disconnected the drive...
I have been having issues with the drive before - recently the drive would never allow itself to be safely removed if files were written to it. I thought this was a strange quirk, but it wasnt all that bad. The PC will also fail to boot if the drive is turned on at startup, freezing at the detect USB section when POSTing. All this would leave me to believe there is something wrong with the USB controller built into the drive, but is there anything i can do? Is it dead?
It is also quite important that this PC remains stable - can someone reassure me that the hard restart of the machine will not have had an impact on the stability of windows?
Thanks, any help would be apprecaited.
I have recently re-copied almost all of my music, and realised today that i had not done a backup in a while. I connected my external drive (a freecom 500 gb 'classic'), and started to the files across. After about 12 Gb of files had copied, windows explorer reported an error and stated that the source file 'could no longer be found in directory x/x/x'. I checked using winamp to ensure the files were still there, and they were (well, music played!), so i stated again from where it left off. The same thing happened again, so i restarted the machine. However, upon retrying, it wouldnt even begin the copying process - the little vista 'time remaining' screen appeared, before quickly giving the message 'not responding'. Explorer.exe was then ended, and failed to restart, leaving my no choice but to do a manual restart of the whole PC. I then tried the drive on another pc int he house, which failed to detect it as a usb device, and for some reason, was unable to shut down after having disconnected the drive...
I have been having issues with the drive before - recently the drive would never allow itself to be safely removed if files were written to it. I thought this was a strange quirk, but it wasnt all that bad. The PC will also fail to boot if the drive is turned on at startup, freezing at the detect USB section when POSTing. All this would leave me to believe there is something wrong with the USB controller built into the drive, but is there anything i can do? Is it dead?
It is also quite important that this PC remains stable - can someone reassure me that the hard restart of the machine will not have had an impact on the stability of windows?
Thanks, any help would be apprecaited.