I have a Mybookworld 1TB single drive. It is about 4 years old and is connected to my home network. I use it as NAS and access it only on my home network. I do not access it remotely. All files are copied to it via Windows XP. I never used MIONET.
Lately it takes a very long time to connect to the drive over the network and I figured that, because of it’s age it might be on the way out so I bought a second MBW but this one is a 2 TB single drive unit. I connect to both drives over my network and begin copying files from the old drive to the new. It goes along just find then all of a sudden the copy procedure just stops and hangs there on a particular file and eventually the window that I had open for the old drive closes. When I attempt to connect to the drive again I get an error that the drive is unreachable and I need to reboot the drive again in order to connect to it. When I attempt to copy the same file it hangs again and I need to reboot the drive once again. I then skip the offending file and continue copying other files but eventually it will hit another file which creates the same problem. I have managed to copy about 75% of my files but roughly 25% of them remain on the old drive and If I try to copy them the system locks up as described above and the window closes.
I am using Windows XP SP3 for an OS and have tried using the native copy command as well as TeraCopy, but get the same results either way. I really need to get these files off the old drive, does anyone know what is causing my problem or how to fix it?
Thanks