Copy / Paste Error - Now no Harddrive found

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Hello! Would be great if I can get help here, because I tried almost
everything.

I have a running XP Prof. and wanted to make a backup of all my Data on
the Data Disk (200 GB HDD) from one partition on the other.

During copy WINDOWS BROKE UP and said that it couldn't complete the
action because there was somthing like a FILE ACCESS ERROR. I tried to
access this one folder and I couldn't open it.

Later on I restarted the computer and found out, that BIOS knows my
harddrive but not WINDOWS or DOS.

I heard from an expert, that If you copy too many folders at once (I
had about 55 GB on Document Files = about 200.000 Files) the Windows
Explorer crashes or makes failues in the copy action. He said that I
had to copy with Total Commander or copy little by little and not
everything at once. I have NTFS File System.

PLEASE HELP ME!

HDD doesn't make any suspect noises and was brand new from Seagate
Barracuda. I really don't think it crashed in hardware cause the
problem was in COPY/PASTE Action in Windows Explorer.


MANY THXs!


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