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Robocopy is the built‑in "power tool" Windows 11 users should reach for when copying large folders, migrating drives, or building resilient backups — it resumes interrupted transfers, supports multi‑threaded copying, logs everything, and can be automated into scheduled tasks for repeatable...

I have a large 12gb .zip file that I downloaded locally. I started an upload to a network folder via a VPN connection off site. The connection is not fast so this would take 20-30min to fully upload. I canceled at 2% and decided to wait until another time to upload this file. The strange thing...

Microsoft has released a security update for Windows 11 version 22H2, which addresses various security vulnerabilities present in the operating system. The update, named KB5023706 (OS Build 22621.1413), includes improvements to Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) hardening, Active...

HI! I tried to install Windows XP 2005 (from an original recovery disc) on an old Laptop (Medion MD 41300, 32 BIT) but it failed due to the fact that it didn't copy a few files (messages while installing). Now I am stuck in between (endless loop). XP tries to boot, but is messaging in between...

When i am trying to login to windows server 2019 for file copy '(\\xxx.xx.xx.xx)' i received "Access denied" message please see the below logs and help me to correct the issue. My PC version : Windows 10 PRO with latest patch update Server version : Windows server 2019 DC (Last patch level...

I am running the latest preview build of Windows 11. My system is Intel i7, 16GB ram; 1 500MB SSD, 1 4TB HDD. When I try to copy a few small files (100,000 MB) to my HDD I open the destination folder, right click (to show the options - I want to "paste" the files) and wait for it to appear. It...

I am just trying to copy the AVI files from a source folder into the corresponding destination folder based on the folder names. For example, the multiple AVI files under Folder C should be copied into Folder xx based on the name"10Q_2P". I guess the trick here would be the name folders...

Sometimes when I copy large directory trees a popup from Windows Defender appears in the lower right corner telling me: Virus & threat protection Threats found Windows Defender Antivirus found treats. Get Details A bell rings and the copy operation of this file is aborted. How can I limit the...

Hi, Sometimes file upload in to the network drive is very slow. sometimes its fast. Can anyone helps. Network shared drive in windows server 2016. Thanks Sailendran

I was unable to copy music from external hard drive because of the character pathway limit. I followed the instruction provided to lift the restriction. The value is set to 1. Now I get the error message 0x80004005. What does this mean? How can I fix this?

I am trying to copy music files from my external hard drive to my music folder and I get a message about file names too long or invalid. I have tried to shorten the names by renaming them, but it won't allow me. I would rather not shorten the songs names anyway. How can I get around this?

This morning I created a backup boot on a verbatim drive. When it finished it said the following: CopySingleFile failed c:\boot\macrium\\WinREFiles\media\Boot\boot.sdi One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device Should I redo this with the same drive and format before...

Hi, When I was trying to copy a file off a networked drive I get the following error: Error 0x80070057: The parameter is incorrect. This is the third time this has occurred. The first time I was trying to copy 6 files and 3 of them were copied correctly and the other was not. I am really...

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...

Hello Everyone! Recently from past 1 month I've been facing a problem after my Win10 update i.e I'm unable to copy or move any file from my Laptop to any of my External HDs. I am also unable to format those External HDs. I've tried everything; copy paste, drag & drop etc. I've even tried...

I was recently involved in a server rebuild and restoration of files from a backup, the main file share failed to restore all files the first time, it skipped over large files. So while preparing to correct that problem employees jumped into the files that were restored and began editing them...

How do I map a drive with UAC enabled? Is it normal to get a "folder destination access denied" error when trying to copy files to and from network drives? I am running win 7 pro x64

If you start multiple copy operations to a seperate drive, windows will start doing them simultaneously. The problem with this is that the sum of those speeds is less than it would be if I had selected all the folders and done one single (sequential/series) copy. Is there a simple registry edit...

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Hi, I have Win 7 Pro. This has never happened to me before. I have an external USB drive of backups from an XP SP3 box. I want to copy them over to an external USB on my Win 7 box. I open 2 explorers. one in each box and 'copy'. It shows as Preparing to Copy and Calculating but then...