Hard drive file transfer error

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I was wondering if anyone can help me with a computer problem I’ve been having.

I have several hard drives, running Win XP, and many misc large and small video files. Often I burn and delete them, or transfer from drive to drive.

The problem is…sometimes…after moving a file or deleting it, in the original spot it was located, an icon and title still remain, and when I click on it to view it, it comes up with an error, and is not accessible. That file is okay wherever I’ve moved it to, accessible, no trouble, but a sort of ‘ghost’ remains and the drive space remaining does not indicate that a file has been moved or deleted. When I reboot, it’s gone, but it’s like my system is getting gummed up or something. What gives? Has anyone heard of this glitch?

As well, if for example I burn 5 movies or large video files to DVD and then delete those files to my recycle bin, often one will not show up. It is gone from the original location, but doesn’t show up in the recycle bin.

When these kind of problems occur, my recycle bin also shows on the desktop that there is something in there, but when I open it up, nothing is listed. When I try to use the empty recycle bin function though, it gives me an error message saying ‘file in use’ and weird coordinates I don’t understand.

Anyway, if anyone has any advice, help, suggestions, or answers, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mer

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If your harddrive is making strange noise, then replace it ASAP (and get anything important off of it too). Otherwise it could be a virus or bad power supply… have to look at your comp to really know though…

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No strange noises as such. I replace my hard drives every year or so, and the ones I have are all fairly new.

I run Norton Anti-Virus, have all the updates, and am apparently virus-free.

The power supply I replaced new within the last 6 months.

Any other ideas?

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meh… according to norton i was free of viruses and spyware etc. ran another program called spyware doctor and found quite a bit… one being a big bad trojan… all that norton would do is say that it “blocked an intrusion attempt”… pah! the stupid stuff on my pc was making explorer run at 50% constantly…

figured out it was a big problem, as norton wouldn’t update (file transfer errors) and also that free online housecall thingy had file transfer errors too and wouldn’t run.

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Thanks for your suggestion x08, I do appreciate any help.

I downloaded and tried Spyware Doctor, but it’s a trial version and after telling you it has found things, you can only remove them by buying and registering with them. :raspberry:

All it found were cookies, which you can call tracking cookies if you want, but the definition of what is private info or not is debatable. I’m not too worried about cookies myself.

The only truly free software for finding spyware or similar threats that I know is Ad-Aware, and I found it to be quite useful. It’s the same kind of thing as Spyware Doctor.

Anyway, I don’t think spyware is causing my problems.

Any other ideas?

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[quote=“Mer”]I was wondering if anyone can help me with a computer problem I’ve been having.

I have several hard drives, running Win XP, and many misc large and small video files. Often I burn and delete them, or transfer from drive to drive.

The problem is…sometimes…after moving a file or deleting it, in the original spot it was located, an icon and title still remain, and when I click on it to view it, it comes up with an error, and is not accessible. That file is okay wherever I’ve moved it to, accessible, no trouble, but a sort of ‘ghost’ remains and the drive space remaining does not indicate that a file has been moved or deleted. When I reboot, it’s gone, but it’s like my system is getting gummed up or something. What gives? Has anyone heard of this glitch?

As well, if for example I burn 5 movies or large video files to DVD and then delete those files to my recycle bin, often one will not show up. It is gone from the original location, but doesn’t show up in the recycle bin.

When these kind of problems occur, my recycle bin also shows on the desktop that there is something in there, but when I open it up, nothing is listed. When I try to use the empty recycle bin function though, it gives me an error message saying ‘file in use’ and weird coordinates I don’t understand.

Anyway, if anyone has any advice, help, suggestions, or answers, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mer[/quote]

It sounds like some of this could be caused by some media-playing software trying to take a certain amount of control of the file. Next time you get an error about the file being in use, go into your Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del), then click on the processes tab, and start shutting down media software one by one, checking if you can delete these files after each time.

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[quote=“irishstu”][quote=“Mer”]I was wondering if anyone can help me with a computer problem I’ve been having.

I have several hard drives, running Win XP, and many misc large and small video files. Often I burn and delete them, or transfer from drive to drive.

The problem is…sometimes…after moving a file or deleting it, in the original spot it was located, an icon and title still remain, and when I click on it to view it, it comes up with an error, and is not accessible. That file is okay wherever I’ve moved it to, accessible, no trouble, but a sort of ‘ghost’ remains and the drive space remaining does not indicate that a file has been moved or deleted. When I reboot, it’s gone, but it’s like my system is getting gummed up or something. What gives? Has anyone heard of this glitch?

As well, if for example I burn 5 movies or large video files to DVD and then delete those files to my recycle bin, often one will not show up. It is gone from the original location, but doesn’t show up in the recycle bin.

When these kind of problems occur, my recycle bin also shows on the desktop that there is something in there, but when I open it up, nothing is listed. When I try to use the empty recycle bin function though, it gives me an error message saying ‘file in use’ and weird coordinates I don’t understand.

Anyway, if anyone has any advice, help, suggestions, or answers, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mer[/quote]

It sounds like some of this could be caused by some media-playing software trying to take a certain amount of control of the file. Next time you get an error about the file being in use, go into your Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del), then click on the processes tab, and start shutting down media software one by one, checking if you can delete these files after each time.[/quote]

I will try that, thanks for the help.

I wonder if the trouble could be associated with some codec(s) I’ve installed in the past. I use Windows Media Player to play most videos, but have screwed around with various codec packs and individual codecs to try to watch misc vids I’ve downloaded from eMule or otherwise.
Is that possible?