NTFS partions cut and paste problem

[Guest]

I recently upgraded to a larger hard drive because my old hard drive was
failing. So I cloned my old hard drive onto one partition of my new drive and
created a second partition made up of the remaining room. So my disk setup
looks like:

(One physical disk)
\_ Primary Partition 1: "C" (NTFS)
\_ Primary Partition 2: "D" (NTFS)

Everything looked OK until I found that I couldn't cut-and-paste from one
partition to the other--Explorer hangs and then Windows can't shutdown
because Explorer is "currently working on a file". I can copy-and-paste OK.
That is, I can't cut from C:\ and paste to D:\, but I can copy from C:\ and
paste to D:\.

I can also cut-and-paste and copy-and-paste to my external hard drive
(FAT32) without problem. I just have a problem with D:\

Does anyone know what's wrong?

 

[smlunatick]

I recently upgraded to a larger hard drive because my old hard drive was
failing. So I cloned my old hard drive onto one partition of my new drive and
created a second partition made up of the remaining room. So my disk setup
looks like:

(One physical disk)
\_ Primary Partition 1: "C" (NTFS)
\_ Primary Partition 2: "D" (NTFS)

Everything looked OK until I found that I couldn't cut-and-paste from one
partition to the other--Explorer hangs and then Windows can't shutdown
because Explorer is "currently working on a file". I can copy-and-paste OK.
That is, I can't cut from C:\ and paste to D:\, but I can copy from C:\ and
paste to D:\.

I can also cut-and-paste and copy-and-paste to my external hard drive
(FAT32) without problem. I just have a problem with D:\

Does anyone know what's wrong?

I've cloned several drives already and never had a similar problem.
Not certain if this is related to the "cloning" or not. What software
did you use to "clone?"

 

[Guest]

I guess I should also mention I'm running XP Home Edition SP2 on an Inspiron
1100, P4, 1 GB RAM.

 

[Guest]

I used Apricorn's EZ Gig II to clone my drive.

I've cloned several drives already and never had a similar problem.
Not certain if this is related to the "cloning" or not. What software
did you use to "clone?"

 

[dobey]

I used Apricorn's EZ Gig II to clone my drive.

Have you tried running chkdsk on the partitions. Not sure how it could be
related to the imaging software.

I've done the same thing myself without any problems.

 

[Guest]

Have you tried running chkdsk on the partitions. Not sure how it could be
related to the imaging software.

I've done the same thing myself without any problems.

I haven't tried CHKDSK yet, but if that were the problem, I probably
wouldn't be able to copy-and-paste to it either.

It looks like the file does get copied to the destination, but then Explorer
doesn't finish the job. i.e. it doesn't get rid of the original and then it
never closes its file handles. I can simulate cut-and-paste by "copy
original, paste original, delete original", but that's not very practical.