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Article #3763Re: External USB drive "I/O Error"
From: Ed Douglas
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:06
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:06
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Sounds like your drive is failing. Perhaps whatever took out the laptop had a residual effect upon drive. If you want get one of those adapters that allow you to hook a laptop drive into PC, direct connection to the system IDE allows you to 1) eliminate the possibity of it being a USB issue 2) allow system bios to see it and deal with directly and 3) allow you to perform diagnostics. Ed Douglas Marc Rizkallah wrote: > My old laptop died and I bought an external USB cradle for its 20GB IBM > Travelstar drive. When I connect it to my new laptop, Windows XP sees it as > drive E: and I've successfully reformatted it (to FAT32) and copied files > (from my 20GB NTFS local drive). > > However, every 20th file or so I try to copy, I get the following error: > Cannot copy "___": The request could not be performed because of an I/O > device error. > > Though I've successfully copied large 100MB files, they often fail - often > even small 3MB mp3s fail... I try renaming the file, copying a copy of the > file... it won't do it. Can somebody please help me diagnose the problem? > >
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