File Copy

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William Oertell

Does anyone know if Windows XP (or any other version, for that matter)
applies any error correction when dragging files from one drive (especially
a network drive) to a local drive? I'm interested because I've been trying
to copy some Norton Ghost files, totaling over 5 GBytes, from a network
drive to an external drive connected to a notebook, and Ghost has always
detected errors in the local files. Just one lost packet would ruin the
Ghost image, and for a file transfer that large, it seems likely that one
would lose at least one packet. Each file is over 701 MBytes and there's
eight of them.
 
AFAIK, it just performs basic CRC32 checking.

Ghost files are just damn sensitive. We're starting to look at other
options because of how easily they corrupt.

Matt Gibson - GSEC
 

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