usb 3 external drive backup problems

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dcpro1970

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I purchased a new usb 3.0 hard drive and a pci usb 3.0 card and installed them to my computer for use as a backup in windows 7 ultimate 64bit. The drive is recognized and it works fine until I proceed with a backup operation. After a few hundred megabytes of files copied it suddenly says that destination is not available and the procedure is halted. I have gone through the usual steps of reinstallation of drivers and such, but I have the same problem whenever I am copying a significant amount of data. In order to get the drive back as recognized it requires a reboot. My system is a ASUS M4a78T-E board with 8g of ram, pci express radeon 5700 graphc and multiple sata drives and burners. Please help me. I am frustrated.
 
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dcpro1970

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Thanks for responding to my question. The external has a separate power supply from the usb, so I am sure that is not the problem. It is the only thing I am sure of at this point.
 
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Which kind of USB 3 drive do you have? It could be failing or the connection may not be secure.
 
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I am fairly confident that connection and drive are ok. I have run a chkdsk operation and it shows no errors. If I am copying small amounts of data the files transfer properly. I can open them from that drive also, so I think the problem exists elsewhere. Any ideas?
 
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