copy large number of files fails

[Paul Pedersen]

When I try to copy a large number of files (more than several hundred) at
once, from one hard disk to another, or from a CD to a hard disk, the
operation always halts partway through. The error message varies. The
receiving disks have always been NTFS; the from disk file system has been
different.

Any suggestions?

 

[Rob Schneider]

What is(are) the exact error message(s)?

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Paul Pedersen]

This morning it was about "Delayed write cache", but other times it's been
different, I can't remember what now. But today I was writing to an external
USB disk, and write caching was already turned off for that disk! After the
error, the disk was unmounted and I could not mount it again without
restarting it.

Other times I've had errors copying from internal CD to internal HD; then
the CD unmounts and I have to restart the computer to get it back. But this
was on a completely different machine! Makes me think there's a problem with
XP.