Ok i recently bought a 1tb external hard drive and when i try to copy something to it usually a movie that is from 600 to 900 MB first the transfer window says it will take two minutes then it goes to three and it just keeps going up all the way to like 83 minutes do you guys know what is wrong.

Ok i recently bought a 1tb external hard drive and when i try to copy something to it usually a movie that is from 600 to 900 MB first the transfer window says it will take two minutes then it goes to three and it just keeps going up all the way to like 83 minutes do you guys know what is wrong.

Might have to do with how busy your computer is at the moment but if the file transfers without any errs I wouldn't worry about it.

Ok i recently bought a 1tb external hard drive and when i try to copy something to it usually a movie that is from 600 to 900 MB first the transfer window says it will take two minutes then it goes to three and it just keeps going up all the way to like 83 minutes do you guys know what is wrong.

avoid multi-copying..

Heres a probable cause..... Are you copying a movie from a CD/DVD?... check your optical drive for problems, or the CD/DVD you are copying IS the problem. Try several other discs for size.

If you are copying it from another external drive, mostly is, the difference in disc speed (read: rpm = write speed in MBps) is the contributing factor. In this case you have three, the 1TB, the other external, and your internal HDD. If the computer says its a 2 minute copy, fact is your HDD has the top speed in the read, followed by whichever has the next best speed. Most probably your 1TB has the lowest speed. I have yet to encounter a 1TB with the matching spindle speed of a lets say 320MB Western Caviar or a Seagate Baracuda that runs on a tops 7200 rpm. now that says a lot. With this discrepany, if you have a fast HDD but with a slower external.... the average is what your computer HDD is telling you, but the real speed relies also with the external speed and probably is slower....so you get the point. Same argument goes for the Optical Drive writing speed which is the slowest of the lot.

Last is unless a cyclic error pops up in your screen indicating a redundant file being copied.... well.... that copy you are copying is proly corrupted.

Better read the specs of all your memory storage to make sure where the problem is probably commin.

try draging it to external hard drive folder