I had a laptop that went down beyond repair. So I got the HDD and set it as an external 2.5" disk. This disk used to have Win XP and was set with 4 partitions. Yesterday I transferred all the data I had to my new laptop, and everything went fine. Then, I used Win Vista's programs to eliminate the 4 partitions setting the disk to only one volume. Still everything ok. The problem now is... when I try to transfer data from my laptop to the disk, it only transfers small files. With files over 1Mb the computer just hangs up. I ran Scandisk and there were no problems, so I suppose the problem is not with the disk... Can it be the USB cable? But yesterday when I used it to transfer the data from the external to the computer HDD, everything went fine...
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The_Other_One
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So how did the laptop go "beyond repair"? Care to explain exactly what happened, and if it could be HD related?
Have you tried to copy the files to another computer, or use another enclosure?
Have you tried to copy the files to another computer, or use another enclosure?
According to the repair guy, the problem with the laptop was motherboard-related. There was no relation with the disk. I tried to do the file transfer in a Win xp computer and the same thing happened. I didn't try another enclosure because this is the only one I have...
I want to try another cable, just to exclude that it is due to cable problems, although I do not understand how can it transfer perfectly fine the small files and not transfer the larger ones...
I want to try another cable, just to exclude that it is due to cable problems, although I do not understand how can it transfer perfectly fine the small files and not transfer the larger ones...
The_Other_One
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Hehe, I don't beleive most other techies out there unless I too can see the computer.
Hmm...my first attempt would be another enclosure. If you're near NC I have a cable and an old spare laptop I use to test laptop drives
Other than that, I am rather baffled as well. One thing that came to mind(but's probably completely wrong) but maybe a buffer problem.
I the drive seems to be pretty easy to extract from your new laptop, you could probably stick it in there and run something like BartPE or some CD-Bootable copy of Linux. Assuming your laptop has a burner in it, you could probably burn the files that way...but of course you have to kind of rip apart the new laptop, and there's no guarantee that would solve the problem :-/
Hmm...my first attempt would be another enclosure. If you're near NC I have a cable and an old spare laptop I use to test laptop drives
Other than that, I am rather baffled as well. One thing that came to mind(but's probably completely wrong) but maybe a buffer problem.
I the drive seems to be pretty easy to extract from your new laptop, you could probably stick it in there and run something like BartPE or some CD-Bootable copy of Linux. Assuming your laptop has a burner in it, you could probably burn the files that way...but of course you have to kind of rip apart the new laptop, and there's no guarantee that would solve the problem :-/
I have an update on the situation... I tried to copy a rather large/small file (large enough for the process to get the usual problem, but only 2Mb small)... I left it there, and after 3, 4 minutes I got an error message saying: "An unexpected erros is preventing the operation. Make a note of this error code, which might bu useful if you get additional help to resolve this problem: Error 0x80007045D:The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error)."
Oh, and meanwhile, I ran scandisk and it came out clean again, and I also changed the USB cable. I am really starting to think that the problem may be from the enclosure... but, the puzzling thing is that it allows the transfer, opening, deleting, etc of small (less than 100Kb) files...
Oh, and meanwhile, I ran scandisk and it came out clean again, and I also changed the USB cable. I am really starting to think that the problem may be from the enclosure... but, the puzzling thing is that it allows the transfer, opening, deleting, etc of small (less than 100Kb) files...