Different Ways Of Transferring Files From One External HD To Another.

linx

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#1
Please make an exception (if needed) and leave this in the Our Block section for more replys. I need them as soon as possible. Thanks.

Yeah, the title says it all. I need some different ways to transfer my files from one exeternal hard drive to another. I have a 250gb and I recently bought a 500gb. I want to transfer all my files from the 250 to the 500. Thing is, I get this error at random times when transfering the files. So I can't get them all over. It's becoming a huge pain in the ass and now I think it even fucked up my 250gb hard drive a little. Some files have different names now... I guess they're corrupted and no longer work? Lucky for me, those files were only a couple of random mp3 files and the actual folders with all my albums and other shit in it still work.

Here's the picture:


You can see my folders on the drive mixed in with the other ones that randomly appeared there. The ones with the weird anmes obviously. The ones with the folders next to them are folders and the ones with the white paper thing next to them WERE mp3 files. Now they aren't any more, lol.

The error I get when trying to copy the files over is "The request could not be
performed because of an i/o device error (0x8007045D)"
. I obviously tried googling it and I came up with no answers for it. But apparantly, alot of people have gotten that error with Vista (and maybe other versions of Windows as well). So I need to think of other ways to get the files from one hd to the other. If you can think of any, let me know. I don't want to burn 100's of cd's. Even if they're data cd's, they still only hold a few hundred songs max. And I have over 30,000.. sooo.. no.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
 

linx

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#3
eh how the fuck did you get it looking like that? surely copy and paste was your easier option?
I'm not sure how that happened to be honest. It just did.. out of nowhere. And yes, copy and paste was the easy way to go. But like I said, that didn't work out the way I thought it was going to.. lol.
 

linx

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#6
lol @ sofi.

I had the same shit. Conclusion: external harddrives suck.
Nah, they're great man. Mine worked fine until now when I started fucking with it. Better than having all the music on your computer. Then you get a new one and what?
 

Preach

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#9
i have three external hard drives and move files back and forth between the three and my two internal ones all the time. never had that problem occur to me. in reference to what Chronic said i can only suggest that you have a sucky ass external hard drive. you cheap/ignorant fuck.
 

linx

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#10
i have three external hard drives and move files back and forth between the three and my two internal ones all the time. never had that problem occur to me. in reference to what Chronic said i can only suggest that you have a sucky ass external hard drive. you cheap/ignorant fuck.
I think it's a Vista related problem. I looked it up and alot of people have gotten that same error. I've been moving the files 1 by 1 and they're slowly getting over, lol. Not single files, but folders. So 1,400 folders one by one. The ones that won't go over i'll just redownload. Which is only a few anyway.
 

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