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Can't Copy Large Files To My External Hard Drive problem....

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December 10, 2013 5:48:58 AM

The drive is nearly 1 TB in size, but it won't seem to let me copy a file from my PC that is over around 4 GB's in size even though the drive is not even 10% full. Why is it doing this and how do I get it to stop? i've fomatted it to NTFS 5 times and still it doesnt work...... the copying process just stops.......
It says that it's the external hard drive is NTFS type it says " 931,51 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)
When it's starting to copy it just stops, i can see a tiny bit of the green thing, and when i click on "More Details" it says "Time Remaining: Calculating" and The speed is 0,00 MB/Second" but after i waited for a few min it changed to "3,87 MB/Second" and the "Time Remaining to 15 seconds" i've waited more than 15 seconds and it hasnt moved an inch..... a 8gb file doesnt copy in 15 sec... This hasn't happend to me before, the problem started when i tried to format a partion to FAT32 and that didnt go so well, so when i was about to formatted it to NTFS i got the "Write protection" problem so i used CMD to clear the attribute of the disk and the volume of the hard disk, and that worked very well and formated it to NTFS.
The copy procces stops but the drive is still visible in the system and large files are non-responsive. Any ideas?

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December 10, 2013 6:50:18 AM

Backup any data that is already on the external hard drive. Use disk management and remove all the partitions (on the external hard drive). Create one partition and format it NTFS. See if that helps.
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a c 87 G Storage
December 10, 2013 7:04:44 AM

You obviously destroyed the partition table. As DeadRam already said, not just format the partition, but delete and recreate it.
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December 10, 2013 12:48:39 PM

DeadRam said:
Backup any data that is already on the external hard drive. Use disk management and remove all the partitions (on the external hard drive). Create one partition and format it NTFS. See if that helps.


I did what you said and still it isn't working, i deleted the Volume in the disk management and formated it to NTFS, and when i tried to copy the 8gb file its still the same, taking ages to copy it to the external hard disk..........
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December 10, 2013 12:49:23 PM

noidea_77 said:
You obviously destroyed the partition table. As DeadRam already said, not just format the partition, but delete and recreate it.


Did by using the disk managment, didnt work...
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February 9, 2014 10:27:45 PM

Hi,
Actually Same problem for me also... Even though i deleted the Volume and create new NTFS with different Drive letter... Still its not rectified cant copy any large date ......



infiniteparadox said:
noidea_77 said:
You obviously destroyed the partition table. As DeadRam already said, not just format the partition, but delete and recreate it.


Did by using the disk managment, didnt work...


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February 25, 2014 2:20:33 AM

Long path tool can helpful on this situation. Thanks
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