Windows Vista Problems Moving Files

I’ve read about similar sounding issues on the forum, unsure if mine is related or different.

My wife was moving pictures and movies over to an external hard drive today. On a fairly consistent basis, the last movie file of the folders wouldn’t move over. For these files the message states "Discovered 0 items (0 Bytes)" and never moves the files. In some ways the message is similar to another problem I am having that I posted about (http://www.windowsbbs.com/hardware/79967-cd-drive-problem-possibly-software-related.html), in which it is showing 0 bytes where data actually exists.

Thanks for the assistance,

Chris

 

Hi Chris, Is your external hard drive FAT or NTFS if it is FAT
maximum file size is 4 GIG.

 

I don't know, and can look into that (though will likely need to know how). However, the size of the file doesn't seem to be the issue. I can select just that last file in the folder by itself and it will essentially time out.

 

In Disk Management it will tell you Fat or NTFS
cheers