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    External Harddrive only letting me copy 3.2gb

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by samwY, Feb 3, 2009.

  1. samwY

    samwY Notebook Consultant

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    I have a Western digital Passport 250gb that I just formatted to NTFS (took 4 hours...)

    I'm trying to move a 24gb file but it always stops once 3.2gb has been copied into my external HDD, what is wrong with this?
     
    samwY, Feb 3, 2009
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  2. samwY

    samwY Notebook Consultant

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    it always freezes my laptop if I try to cancel the file transfer.....
     
    samwY, Feb 3, 2009
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    What type of file is it anyway?

    I had a WD MyBook 500gb that used to crash when transferring large files and made the whole system crash.
     
    flipfire, Feb 3, 2009
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    Can you copy the 24GB file on the C drive (make a duplicate)? maybe a redundacy error.
     
    t30power, Feb 3, 2009
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