External hard drive "Cannot find the specified file"

[baxterb23]

So I purchased a new Western Digital 320 IDE hard drive that was on sale and an AcomData 3.5" enclosure. I put everything together and format the drive to NTFS (for Windows XP).
I start transferring files and everything is going smooth. I had planned on moving about 200 gigs of stuff into this drive, but then an error occured.

I get this message: Cannot copy "filename": Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.

Then the drive dissapears and I get a "Delayed Write Failed" message.

Then the autorun comes up and goes away.

So I unmount the drive, turn it off, remove the USB, and replug and turn back on.

The drive comes back and everything looks fine. So I transfer the file that caused the error and it works. I go back to transferring multiple files and the same thing happens!

I've never seen this error before and I've had many external hard drives (including internals with enclosures).

 

[Lemon13]

u might have a heat issue here, has the enclosure a fan?
how hot is it getting?

 

[ASG0856]

Where you trying to move the 200Gb in one go? When I first hot my WD External drive, I tried a similar thing and had exactly the same problem. I found I had to transfer in smaller 'lumps'. Whether this was a drive issue or USB2 issue, I never found out, although I think the latter (it was a five year old computer). Since I bought my new computer, I've never had a problem

 

[wahnula]

Cannot copy "filename": Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.

Does the file exist? Can you open it? It may be an artifact from a deleted file. Try a file-copy program like SyncBackSE.

Tony

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[baxterb23]

It wasn't a heat issue or the a bunch of corrupt files.
I don't think I created a partition on the drive the first time around, just formatted it. So I deleted the partition, made a new primary one, and reformatted the drive.
So far everything is looking good!