[cereal30059i]

I recently bought a new computer with windows vista. When I started trasnferring my files from my external hard disk to the new computer, there is always a message which pops up saying "cannot read file from source". I'm not sure whether the problem lies with the os or my hdd as when i transferred files from my old xp computer to the external hdd, it was a breeze.

Is there a way to solve this problem? Thanks.

[autuymnrain]

omg i had this problem too. i think it's a complicated security system that vista did. i think but what i did, since nothing else seemed to work, was insert my external hdd into my computer, and had it as my C drive and back-uped the files from there into another HDD

[marrymehyori]

omg i had this problem too. i think it's a complicated security system that vista did. i think but what i did, since nothing else seemed to work, was insert my external hdd into my computer, and had it as my C drive and back-uped the files from there into another HDD

That's pretty much the way I've ALWAYS handled getting data from an old hard drive to a new one. Of course, in my case it's usually the case that the old hard drive had died, or at least was no longer bootable, but it could still be installed as a slave and read from successfully which is all I really need.

[Fishscene]

Are you able to even view the drive's contents? If so, and you can copy other files, then it's the hard drive, or the files themselves.


Usually that type of error means that the file doesn't exist, it is corrupted, or it might be encrypted and you don't have the key/password. I'd recommend running a scandisk on your external drive (Start>Computer>right-click drive>Properties>tools>error-checking: "Check Now...") Then select both options, click start, and watch some TV- it might take a while.

Hopefully, that might fix things up a bit.

[cereal30059i]

thanks for all your suggestions.

will go and try out the solutions now. hope it works :)