Today I bought two Seagate external hard drives. One is a 500GB (drive 1) drive, the other is a 1TB drive (drive 2).
I hooked drive 1 up to an older computer because it only had a 20GB internal drive. I copied everything over, and pointed My Documents and a few other locations to it, so it would act as an internal drive (this is on my parents computer, I'm trying to make it as simple as possible). The drive is labeled F:/
I then took drive 2 and hooked it up to my computer. I transferred over my digital copies of movies I own as well as some music and pictures. I plugged that drive into my parents computer as well. So far, there hadn't been an issue. The problem only occurs when I try to copy the data off of drive 2 onto drive 1. The files won't transfer, it says there's an error reading files, even if I try to transfer vice-versa. The transfer dialog hangs and explorer freezes up. The torrents that I have downloading to drive 1 then stop saying they can't find the specified file.
My Computer still lists both drives as being active, and I can still access files from each (I can watch movies on drive 2). I just can't transfer from one to the other.
Looking at the drive properties, it lists both as using Location 0. Is the problem simply that they're both fighting over the same location? Is my computer not able to identify them as two uniquely different drives? How can I correct this?
If you require more detailed information about the drives or the computer, just ask. The computer in question is running Windows XP SP2.
I appreciate any help.
Drive Manager.
Shows drive F: at the top being 500GB, which is right. But at the bottom it shows it as being 1TB, as if it were the other drive. Why?
I hooked drive 1 up to an older computer because it only had a 20GB internal drive. I copied everything over, and pointed My Documents and a few other locations to it, so it would act as an internal drive (this is on my parents computer, I'm trying to make it as simple as possible). The drive is labeled F:/
I then took drive 2 and hooked it up to my computer. I transferred over my digital copies of movies I own as well as some music and pictures. I plugged that drive into my parents computer as well. So far, there hadn't been an issue. The problem only occurs when I try to copy the data off of drive 2 onto drive 1. The files won't transfer, it says there's an error reading files, even if I try to transfer vice-versa. The transfer dialog hangs and explorer freezes up. The torrents that I have downloading to drive 1 then stop saying they can't find the specified file.
My Computer still lists both drives as being active, and I can still access files from each (I can watch movies on drive 2). I just can't transfer from one to the other.
Looking at the drive properties, it lists both as using Location 0. Is the problem simply that they're both fighting over the same location? Is my computer not able to identify them as two uniquely different drives? How can I correct this?
If you require more detailed information about the drives or the computer, just ask. The computer in question is running Windows XP SP2.
I appreciate any help.
Drive Manager.
Shows drive F: at the top being 500GB, which is right. But at the bottom it shows it as being 1TB, as if it were the other drive. Why?
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