External USB drive "I/O Error"

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Marc Rizkallah

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?
 
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
 
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