Need to nuke vista but cannot copy photos

[Luvsql]

I used to have an XP laptop. I purchased a new laptop with Vista Ultimate in Feb 08 and copied all my docs, including 12Gb of photos onto vista. All good til I started to get blue screens 4-5 times a month. Now it is almost daily, so I gotta nuke it.

I purchased an external Iomega USB drive to copy my data off before nuking, yet I am receiving messages on all my photos "The File x.jpg has properties that cannot be copied to the new location."

If I can't copy my files off before nuking and I have to nuke because of blue screens, what are my options here other than losing all my photos? I am simply copying and pasting with explorer to the external drive.

 

[SimonDavies]

What format do you have on the external device NTFS or FAT32?

SimonD.

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[Luvsql]

I formatted the drive in NTFS and it has resolved the issue. Not sure why only the jpg files were affected by this.

 

[linney]

I have seen messages similar to this with some compressed files, and .jpg are a sort of compressed file. Do these files have data in an Alternate Data Stream, perhaps the Help and Support article "Add tags or other properties to a file" can explain some of the additional information that was not able to be copied to a FAT32 file system?

Win Xp And W2k With Ntfs - Alternate / Multiple data streams

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/win-xp-w2k-ntfs_t2021.html