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File Copying Not Working
I’ve just received a 500GB Maxtor OneTouch 3 external HD. Working on G5 Dual 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, FCP5. I formatted the hard drive before loading any footage onto it. With a clean drive, I started transfering quicktime files (and other files) from two other drives…no big deal I thought. I started getting lots of error messages on different files saying the task couldn’t be completed. I noticed the files were larger media files, so I tried a few different things including copying to my master drive. I was successful in copying a large file over to my Master drive, but then still couldn’t get the file to go onto my new drive copying from Master to New. I noticed that the error message occurred each time when the copied file reached 4.0GB on the new drive, so I scrolled through all the media that did make it onto the drive and nothing over 4GB made it on. 3.85GB made it on, but nothing over that.
Is there some sort of setting on this drive that’s causing this? Something I can change in the Disk Utilities? How do I resolve this? Never seen this before. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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I have a client’s Maxtor 1gb drive here now and it has none of these issues. I suspect that the drivve may be faulty. If you have Disk Warrior I’d run that on the hard drive immediately.
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
David, Thanks. After trouble shooting this some more, I tried re-formatting the drive and I noticed that I had accidentally formatted it for pc/windows the first time around. Re-formatting it for OSX solved the problem.
Thanks,
Eric -
That will do it everytime…
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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