On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:52 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
I apologise for the following longish message which, possibly, may belong in the off-topic list... but also doesn't belong there.... Please bear with me..
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The second hassle.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was interstate, I bought a couple of 500GB Western Digital HDs. These are now the ones which have 11.2 installed on them, and they are working fine... with a possible qualification.
The qualification is that I installed XP SP2 to start with, before installing oS 11.2, and created my "usual" ntfs partitions on both HDs. No drama here.
However, I also have an external 500GB Maxtor USB drive - factory formatted in ntfs- which I use for backing-up files both from both Linux and 'old' installation/s of XP (residing on other set/s of HDs).
Home or Pro? I know someone who had a quite similar problem and it turned out to be permission/ownership in Windows.
The problem - which has me totally bamboozled - is that I can copy, using mc (midnight commander), files from the 'old' installation/s of XP to the external USB and then can copy using mc from the external Maxtor to the partitions on the new installation of XP.... *BUT* I am unable to copy the same files from external USB Maxtor to the new XP installation using anything from within the newly installed XP :-( : there is a "pretend" copy of the first couple of files but then the whole process slows to ~20kb/s, and in the final result NOTHING has been copied- the file name/s contain/s 0 bytes. The error message in XP is, if I recall correctly, is along the lines of, "cannot write to the destination <disk/directory>" or similar.
I have done chkdsk <X>: /f on all of the partitions while in XP and all partitions (including the external Maxtor) have no errors
Sorry about asking about this here, but if you can throw some light on this hassle of mine I'd be most grateful.
BC
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