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Hard Drive becomes corrupt when I move a lot of files

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Psyber

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Is this normal? Do I need a utility to do this? I have a 200 GB Western Digital Hard drive split into 50 GB partitions and when I move/copy a large quantity of files (2 GB+ and/or 100+ files moderately sized files), my computer crashes and the C drive (partition 1) becomes corrupt and I have to reinstall the OS. I've had to do this 4 times in the last week.

I thought it was because my hard drive cache was bad on the drive so I bought a new retail box 250 GB hard drive, but when I started copying the data from 200GB to the 250GB selecting over 10 GB in files to copy over, my C: partition became corrupt again. Do I have a virus or something? Does this happen to anyone else?

Some system stats are as follows (let me know if you need more info):
OS: Windows 2000 SP3
CPU: 1.3 Ghz Athlon
Format: NTFS
 
This type of situation is almost always because the system memory is corrupt. Run MemTest86 (if you could run All tests) and tell us if it comes up with any errors. If it does you should probably swap the memory. As always for this situation complete system specifications would be nice...
 
Alright, I'll try running the memory test. I didn't list all the system specs because the system is so old and I did so much part swapping that I'm not really sure what's in it anymore. After I run the tests I'll look up the specs too and let you guys know. I know it's 256 RAM (I think SDRAM?), some sort of GEforce MX vid card, and some ASUS motherboard.
 
If you get memory errors, take the sticks out, clean the contacts carefully with an alcohol-based wipe (no, not alcohol itself 🙂), and reinsert, run Memtest again.

Girlfriend's computer went screwy the other day, took the memory out and cleaned it- bang, running perfectly again.
 
Well, I ran the tests and it turns out I do have a bad stick of memory. It failed on test 6. Does that have some kind of significance? I pulled it and I guess I'll see how it works out. DopeFiend, what did you use for an alcoholic-based wipe? I used a wet nap to clean the contacts on the stick of memory, but I still get errors. It appears that I get less errors after I cleaned it, but I still get a few errors. Anyone know how I can salvage the memory, it seem like a waste to just toss it.
 
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