I'd test the RAM by burning a memtest86 live CD or USB and running it. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Rich Hare <freepr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to Debian, but learning. > > My issue involves 2 TB USB hard drives. > > I have been using Debian via the Knoppix bootable CD to back up a couple > of Win XP computers. Has been working wonderfully with a 500 GB drive > I've used > and also a 1 TB drive. > I recently purchased a couple of 2 TB drives for this purpose, but have a > problem. The drives will mount; the backup (70-80 GB) will start, but > terminates without error > message after a few folders are copied; leaving a bad file or two behind. > (Windows reports > the files are bad and can't even delete them). I tried partitioning the > drive into two 1 TB partitions, but this, too, does not work. I've used a > Seagate utility to > check if the drives have 512 byte sectors or 4096 byte sectors and they > are 512 byte NTFS > sector drives. > > The drives work well with WinXP. My present work-around is to make my > backup > using one of the smaller drives and then copy it over to one of the 2 TB > drives, but this > is a kludge, long-term. > > If you have any suggestions, or ideas for further tests, I would > appreciate them. > > Rich > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54db7515....@gmail.com > >
