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Hard Drive problem

Feb 9, 2007 1:48AM PST

ok, so i boot with a 20GB hard drive right, i have 2 additional hard drives, 120Gb n a 30 gb, am trying to copy the entire 30 gb to the 120 gb hard drive, but whne i wuz copying this particular folder, i get this message

"cannot copy ADDRESS: the drive cannot find the sector requested"

plz tell me what this means and what i can do to fix it..thanx........

Intel Celeron 668 Mhz
144 MB ram
20 GB hard drive (boot)
30GB hD
120Hd
win xp pro sp2

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Usually a failing hard disk.
Feb 9, 2007 1:59AM PST

The program SPINRITE might fix that, then again may not. But it's time to copy your files out that will copy and chuck the drive in a tin can.

Bob

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shucks
Feb 9, 2007 2:30AM PST

how am i so lucky that the very very important vital info is the one i can't copy........well............will try spriterite (if thats the name)............thanx