can' t copy to flash drives or external hard drives with USB ports

I got Vista Home Premiun on a brand new machine, the computer runs
fine 'cept that I can't move large files from and to external
harddrives that use a USB port. All it does is calculate the time
remaining. At a speed of 0 bytes per second. It does that for hours.
Sometimes windows explorer freezes up and then I have to use taks
manager to get out of it. Most of the time I can just cancel out of
it. I need to get those files off my hard drive and need to back them
up. Any ideas?

Gaby

Have you applied the Performance and Reliability update for Windows Vista?
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Also, you might want update your chipset drivers to see if it is available.

Does this problem occurr with other USB based devices?
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>I got Vista Home Premiun on a brand new machine, the computer runs
> fine 'cept that I can't move large files from and to external
> harddrives that use a USB port. All it does is calculate the time
> remaining. At a speed of 0 bytes per second. It does that for hours.
> Sometimes windows explorer freezes up and then I have to use taks
> manager to get out of it. Most of the time I can just cancel out of
> it. I need to get those files off my hard drive and need to back them
> up. Any ideas?
>
> Gaby
>

On 11 Nov, 13:06, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andre...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Have you applied the Performance and Reliability update for Windows Vista?
>
> >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...D=24ead3a0-77f...
>
> Also, you might want update your chipset drivers to see if it is available.
>
> Does this problem occurr with other USB based devices?
> --
> Andre
> Blog:http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry<i...@gbhmedia.com> wrote in message
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>
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> >I got Vista Home Premiun on a brand new machine, the computer runs
> > fine 'cept that I can't move large files from and to external
> > harddrives that use a USB port. All it does is calculate the time
> > remaining. At a speed of 0 bytes per second. It does that for hours.
> > Sometimes windows explorer freezes up and then I have to use taks
> > manager to get out of it. Most of the time I can just cancel out of
> > it. I need to get those files off my hard drive and need to back them
> > up. Any ideas?
>
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I got a Flash drive and a Seagate Agent Backup External Hardive, both
run over a USB 2 Port, all the files I'm trying to transfer are 10MB
and up. Small files don't seem to be an issue. It just gave me the
same problem when I tried to delete one of the alrge files.....Mouse
runs fine, the video camera deos the same thing... it seems to be more
of a large file problem..... both storage device run fine on my old
desktop that has XP on it...

Gaby