$Mft copying error

[Gavin Clements]

When I try to copy any files to my USB external hard drive
it always fails with the following errors:

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$MftMirr. The data has been lost.
This error may be caused by failure of your computer
hardware or network connection.Please try to save this
file elsewhere.

other variations on the error :

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$BitMap

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$Mft


Do you have any idea what the problem is and a possible
solution for it

Note: the copying to the USB external hard drive had
worked previously. I have moved a lot of files around on
my hard drive (C recently, could this be a possible
problem, and would a disk defrag solve the problem.

Thanks for your help

Gavin

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

How many drives are physically in the machine? Is Volume3 the USB drive?
If so, sounds like you might have corrupt data structures on the drive. Run
chkdsk on the volume 3 drive with an /f /r switch.

 

[Guest]

I only have the one hard drive in my machine (C,
from which I am trying to copy from, to a usb hard drive.

I will use the chkdsk tonight on my c: drive (40gb), is
this a quick process or could it take a while?

Does moving and deleting a lot of files corrupt the data
structure on the drive?

Thanks

Gavin

-----Original Message-----
How many drives are physically in the machine? Is Volume3 the USB drive?
If so, sounds like you might have corrupt data structures on the drive. Run
chkdsk on the volume 3 drive with an /f /r switch.

--
Joseph Conway [MSFT]
Windows 2000/2003 Server group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

When I try to copy any files to my USB external hard drive
it always fails with the following errors:

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$MftMirr. The data has been lost.
This error may be caused by failure of your computer
hardware or network connection.Please try to save this
file elsewhere.

other variations on the error :

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$BitMap

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$Mft


Do you have any idea what the problem is and a possible
solution for it

Note: the copying to the USB external hard drive had
worked previously. I have moved a lot of files around on
my hard drive (C recently, could this be a possible
problem, and would a disk defrag solve the problem.

Thanks for your help

Gavin

.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

It shouldnt, you arent really moving that much data either. Have you tried
moving maybe 200-300MB to check if you are getting the error? Maybe youre
hitting a buffer of some sort.

--
Joseph Conway [MSFT]
Windows 2000/2003 Server group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

I only have the one hard drive in my machine (C,
from which I am trying to copy from, to a usb hard drive.

I will use the chkdsk tonight on my c: drive (40gb), is
this a quick process or could it take a while?

Does moving and deleting a lot of files corrupt the data
structure on the drive?

Thanks

Gavin

-----Original Message-----
How many drives are physically in the machine? Is Volume3 the USB drive?
If so, sounds like you might have corrupt data structures on the drive. Run
chkdsk on the volume 3 drive with an /f /r switch.

--
Joseph Conway [MSFT]
Windows 2000/2003 Server group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

When I try to copy any files to my USB external hard drive
it always fails with the following errors:

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$MftMirr. The data has been lost.
This error may be caused by failure of your computer
hardware or network connection.Please try to save this
file elsewhere.

other variations on the error :

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$BitMap

\Device\HarddiskVolume3\$Mft


Do you have any idea what the problem is and a possible
solution for it

Note: the copying to the USB external hard drive had
worked previously. I have moved a lot of files around on
my hard drive (C recently, could this be a possible
problem, and would a disk defrag solve the problem.

Thanks for your help

Gavin

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