So I've been up for hours this morning, fighting with a brand new Seagate 500Gb Extension 2.5" portable hard drive.
While transferring 120Gb of information from the drive to an internal drive, it often stops copying/moving halfway through. It seems to happen mostly on large (1Gb+ files), but has also happened on smaller 200Mb files.
When it stops copying/moving, the destination drive is accessible, but if I try to access the files on the 2.5" it freezes and gives me the not responding message. If instead of accessing the files however, I click on my computer in the same window, the copying/moving resumes!
Prior to discovering this, I had been opening task manager and attempting unsuccessfully to kill the processes, and then explorer, which would close but not restart itself. I then had to open powershell and restart explorer from there.
Unplugging the 2.5" would also stop the hung copy process, and I'm hoping it hasn't corrupted any of my files! (only tried it twice).
The Seagate came default formatted in NTFS, and I'm using W7 64bit. I also have USB suspend disabled.
Any ideas?
While transferring 120Gb of information from the drive to an internal drive, it often stops copying/moving halfway through. It seems to happen mostly on large (1Gb+ files), but has also happened on smaller 200Mb files.
When it stops copying/moving, the destination drive is accessible, but if I try to access the files on the 2.5" it freezes and gives me the not responding message. If instead of accessing the files however, I click on my computer in the same window, the copying/moving resumes!
Prior to discovering this, I had been opening task manager and attempting unsuccessfully to kill the processes, and then explorer, which would close but not restart itself. I then had to open powershell and restart explorer from there.
Unplugging the 2.5" would also stop the hung copy process, and I'm hoping it hasn't corrupted any of my files! (only tried it twice).
The Seagate came default formatted in NTFS, and I'm using W7 64bit. I also have USB suspend disabled.
Any ideas?
My Computer
At a glance
XP Pro/Vista Ultimate (64)/Windows 7 Ultimate...Core 2 Duo E8500 @ stock8Gb (4 X 2Gb) Corsair Dominator 1066Mhz DDR2XFX ATI Radeon 4870 1Gb
- OS
- XP Pro/Vista Ultimate (64)/Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition(64)
- CPU
- Core 2 Duo E8500 @ stock
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
- Memory
- 8Gb (4 X 2Gb) Corsair Dominator 1066Mhz DDR2
- Graphics Card(s)
- XFX ATI Radeon 4870 1Gb
- Sound Card
- Onboard 7.1
- Monitor(s) Displays
- BenQ E2200Hd, Asus VW161D, HP L1506
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- Seagate 7200.12 500Gb
2 X Hitachi 1Tb
- PSU
- CoolerMaster 650 EPD
- Case
- Thermaltake
- Cooling
- 2 X Noctua 120mm's, Stock Intel
- Keyboard
- Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech
