NTFS Input/Output Error When Copying Many/Large Files

[zjagannatha]

I eventually decided my files were corrupt and gave up on it. This was also almost a year ago, so I don't even have the CD anymore.

You might want to be sure there are no disk errors on the hard drive.
fsck is the program to do that, but you'll need to find out what the device you want to check is. Something like "/dev/sda1" or "/dev/hda0"

then run:

fsck /dev/sda1

or whatever the device was.

[zzarko]

I had similar problems (copying big files from/to external drive) several years ago, but the problem was manifesting in both Linux and Windows on 3 out of 4 computers I tried (strangley, it worked fine on one computer). It was external drive made by Intex. I returned the drive, got another one - same problem. Then I returned that one too, and asked for another manufacturer. I got Coolink (or something like that), and no problems at all since then. I guess that was hardware problem and back then there were several manufacturers that used same electronics in their external drives (with same problems). I also have good expiriences with Chieftec and Transcend external drives. Western Digital should be OK too.