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I have made several attempts to copy my 500g audiophile external drive to a 750gig ext. drive without much luck. I can get halfway through it and get an error which stops the copy process.
Six hours wasted....



Back when i was still running BIAB audiophile as an external USB drive, I experienced the same (or at least similar) copy failures that you are experiencing. This was a couple of editions back and I don't remember right now if my operating system was Vista or Windows 7 at that point in time. My first solution was to move the copy operations from my desktop where the faiure was occuring, to my laptop which runs Windows XP. The backup copy process was still a long process because of the massive size of the audiophile edition, but the XP laptop got it done. If Matt and Andrew's suggestions don't get your problem fixed, I'd recommend trying the backup with a different computer if you have one available, especially one that is running XP, and see if that works for you.

After the BIAB backup experience on my desktop, I noticed other failures of rather large copy attempts between USB drives on my desktop. I did a lot of googling and searching of windows forums at the time and couldn't find anything. Finally, someone private messaged me on one of the Windows forums and pointed me to a hot fix that Windows doesn't include in their updates because it only affects a few computers. There is a certain chipset that has some issues with large copy operations on USB drives. I think it is possible to screw your computer up if you apply the hot fix and you don't need to. I debated the pros and cons, decided that my computer had the chip set in question, and applied the hotfix. It worked, and I don't have problems copying files from USB drives any longer.

Try some of the other suggestions first and if you still can't get the drive copied let me know and I'll try to dig up he PM that I got that pointed me to the hot fix page for the problem. I'm thinking that this was a Windows 7 issue rather than a Vista issue.

Keith
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