Ben,
> My Compaq Persario SR2010nx, 120gb(system drive) harddrive just
> failed. In this computer I also have a Maxtor 40gb(data drive)
> installed as a data drive. Compag sent me a replacement harddrive
> (120gb), which I installed. During the install process, I made a fatal
> error. I left the 40gb harddrive connected when I did the system
> recovery and the 120gb and the 40gb drive were both reformatted. Oh
> well.
OK, I am intrigued by your saga but one thing is not clear. Did you end up
with only the new 120 G drive and the old 40 G. drive? I am sorry to hear
that the data driver (40 G) was formatted, that's the worst part of the
situation. Ones personal data is always that most important thing to back
up. I have several cmoputers and two external drives and I have multiple
copies of my data.
> I decided to use the new 120gb drive as my data drive(since Windows
> XP installed on the 40gb drive).
OK,. there's where you erred. If you had installed the new 120 G drive as
master and the 40 as slave then XP would have installed on the new drive. Of
course you chould have chosen to install on the 40 even with it as slave. My
general rule is NOT to do anything until I have my data backed up. [That
seems natureal but many users still don't know that. ]
> The drives are now installed as NTFS and the 120gb drive has one(1)
> partition. The 40gb drive has 2(two) partitions, system and recovery.
> When I tried to MOVE, COPY or DELETE files over 5,000mb, the files
> will/do not move and no error message is displayed.
To clear things up you need to describe the steps in detail. A better way to
break down these files into smaller folders is the first creat the folders
then copy [not move] files to each folder. If you do this in small file
groups you may reduce the changes of failure. And by coyping rather than
moving you avoid losing files. You can delete the old files AFTER you have
copied them successfully copied them. I usually group files by some catagory
that makes the folder easy to ID. I have a lof of family pictures and
videos. They live in a giant folder called Family Pics & Videos, which
contains the sub folders by group.
> This only happens on the 120gb drives and in the folders that I created.
One bit of information might help. The default option when copying files on
the same drives is that they prefer to be moved. You have to CHOOSE copy if
that is what you want to do.
> Everything seems fine on the system drive, in all folders.
An important foctor when choosing which drive to put which files is
performance. A newer drive is more likely to load and copy files faster.
> My current workaround is to burn the files to my CD/dvd drive and
> copy or move back from that location.
That's a good approach because you will have permenant copies of the files.
My favorite file management tool is an external hard drive. You can drag n
drop files without using special software [like burning].
Jim
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