External USB drive "I/O Error"

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From: Marc Rizkallah
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:40

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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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