External harddrive corruption problem

I have the asus g73sw in my signature and what I am doing is transferring games I have on it onto an external drive and then installing the games from the external onto my desktop computer. Both systems are using win 7 x64.

The problem is, I did 4 different game transfers and all 4 of them get corrupted after I transfer them to the external drive and then try to install it on the desktop.

The external drive is a WDC WD20 EARS, western digital 2 TB 5400 RPM 3.5 inch drive inside a Nexstar CX enclosure. I did a full chkdsk on the drive and it reported it had no bad sectors. Also files on the external like movies and things can run just fine. I also get no errors when transferring games or files to the external.

Using the original game discs to install on my desktop works fine so I know its not the game itself. Also installing the transferred games back on my laptop result in the same corruption problem.

This is such a strange problem. Any ideas what could be going on? Thanks.

 

The drive and/or the drive's electronics are bad.

Junk this drive.

 

But why did chkdsk report no bad sectors?

 

Something else very strange is going on here. I tried to copy the files on a usb stick and I got the same error and this is not just 1 game it was several games. All of them had an error. I tried to burn the files to a new disc and put the disc in my desktop and copy the files over and there is an error that prevents it from copying all the way (error from reading source disc). What the heck is going on here?

 

I would do a complete diagnostic of your computer's drives. This is starting to sound like either the drive in your G73 or your desktop are the ones having issues. There is a very good chance the drives in your G73 are from seagate, in which case you could use seatools for diagnostic.

 

you know this thing called copy protection? ... that's what is in use on all game CDs these days.

so it's not your hardware that is causing this problem.

 

You might be on to something miro, i was thinking steam backups .

 

I sincerely doubt that is an issue because I have installed this way from retail discs in the past. Copy protection is only a factor when duplicating retail discs.

 

well try to copy something else, an easy way to rule that out.

 

After rereading your original post I have a question. When you say you are “transferring games onto an external drive and then installing” are you transferring the game and data from a directory of an already installed game or are you transferring a copy of the original game as it was on the install disc prior to it being installed?

You should be able to copy the original game disc from the CD or DVD to a directory on the external drive and then install it to your desktop pc, or is this what you are trying to do and it doesn’t work? I am a bit confused as to what your definition of “transferring” is. Sorry, its probably just me .

 

Hope you're still not wasting your time with this?

Chkdsk can report no bad sectors (truthfully) and the drives electronics when moving/tracking actual data can still be faulty.

Junk this drive.