Windows explorer wierdness

[Doomer]

This happens on a regular basis.

I just tried to copy a group of files and folders to a freshly formatted HD. The target HD was totally empty yet half way through the copy operation I get a popup that says a file already exists, what do you want to do. This is crazy, how can the file already exist when the HD was empty to begin with? I answered to skip the files (wasn't really thinking) and for some strange reason the operation aborted and it was only half way finished.

Is there a decent Win Explorer replacement or am I stuck with this POS?

Thanks

 

[corkyg]

Formatting a disk, especiall;y in NTFS, always creates files on the disk. A formatted disk is never totally empty. Possibly your file transfer included one or more of those overhead files.

 

[Doomer]

This was basically a drag and drop operation. System files are hidden and therefor should not be included in the group of files being dragged and dropped. No way were they copied over prior to the operation. No way could thay have been on the drive before.

 

[soldsoul4foos]

"No way...." LOL How many times have I heard this in IT?

Rofl

 

[Matt1970]

I believe if you do CTRL+A it will pick up hidden files. Try highlighting the first file or folder in a list and then hold down shift while clicking the last one, then drag and drop.

 

[Doomer]

The files that supposedly are already on the destination drive are not system or hidden files.

 

[piasabird]

Many disks are already formatted. Making it a Sys Disk just adds some file so your operating system can read it. Another method is making it an ISO Image that should make a disk completely readable and bootable, similar to how they do for Linux distros.

Burning software may have different options.

On floopies we use to use a command SYS C:/ A:/ or something like this.

 

[Binky]

Not sure what your issue is since I've never seen that, but you can try teracopy.

http://codesector.com/teracopy