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You may want to try another port or cable too.
~Lordbob
I tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling, didn't work.
Doesn't work from the hidden Admin account.
I seem to be able to move smaller folders, but once they get over a certain size they won't budge.
There's enough room on the drive because I only just changed it from ext3 to NTFS, so it's freshly formatted.
I can't be bothered any more. I'm just going to copy everything to the other drive overnight using a live CD while I sleep.
Thanks for helping guys.
No, I formatted it from ext3 to NTFS before I tried putting any files or folders on it. (Or posted this thread.) I'm putting the folders onto the newly formatted NTFS internal drive.
I'm moving some of my filesystems over to NTFS. (I'm coming to Windows after a couple of years using Ubuntu.)
Edit: I know Windows can only read it's own 2 filesystems. (Without fsdriver installed.)
You might look at this, they never say if it solved it or not and not quit the same situation but might be worth a try.
Windows 7 Ultimate file copy problems
Just an update. I tried doing this with my laptop as well - and with different drives - and it will transfer smaller folders and/or files between drives, but won't transfer bigger folders.
The stats on the "Music" folder that I'm trying to move are: 131GB, with 13,893 files in 1,809 folders.
Has anyone managed to transfer a folder that big using Windows 7? It seems strange that my laptop won't do it either, and that it doesn't matter which drives I try it on.
Like I say it seems to be a size issue (not permissions, or free space) because smaller folders are fine, but when the folder exceeds a certain size it won't budge. There's no dialogue or verbose output of any kind.
131 gigs...
You always need about 15% free space. So if you take you current space used on your hard drive + 131 gigs; do you have 15% free space left?
Transfer a hand full of folders at a time. Once you get the files off do a full format on the external hard drive. I assume it's NTFS.