Try To Copy Files, Total Freeze

[cornemuse]

One of my computers has started freezing up when I (tried) to copy files. I tried copying "Firefox Portable" folder, (=1+ gig). About ½ way through, comp froze totally. Had to switch off psu. Tried about 12 MB file, same. Tried a few BMP images, not large ones, same issue. What gives?

Oh, Different comp to usb, ok. usb to this computer not, & sata to sata drives, (this comp), not. Same issue.

 

[Elizabeth23]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...nal-hard/4c333264-a6c5-4dca-8d2c-bc977ab24ad2

wunders (above) gives excellent xp advice on this issue,

 

[cornemuse]

Liz, they said basically do chkdsk /f (?) Was worse if anything after chkdsk

 

[Elizabeth23]

checkdisk should be done with the /r parameter

and run at least twice until no errors are found