Question Copying and corruption

[Artisanico]

I don't know whether I am doing something wrong but I always find myself beset with file and folder corruption when I copy tens or a hundred or so Gb's worth of apparently uncorrupted data from one drive to another. What I do is, I simply pull the folders from one drive to another. Or do r-click copy on the relevant folders. Currently, however, I am copying using AOMEI and the same data that gave me this corruption is taking *ages*. I left it copying overnight and it's only done 65% of it, copying from SSD to a not-very-old, reformatted HDD. Can anyone advise?

 

[Lutfij]

Maybe you should cut and copy some files off the drive and see if freeing up space helps speed up subsequent copy/paste processes.

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I am copying using AOMEI and the same data that gave me this corruption is taking *ages*.

Check health of your storage devices.
Use HDtune health, show screenshots.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[CountMike]

I don't know whether I am doing something wrong but I always find myself beset with file and folder corruption when I copy tens or a hundred or so Gb's worth of apparently uncorrupted data from one drive to another. What I do is, I simply pull the folders from one drive to another. Or do r-click copy on the relevant folders. Currently, however, I am copying using AOMEI and the same data that gave me this corruption is taking *ages*. I left it copying overnight and it's only done 65% of it, copying from SSD to a not-very-old, reformatted HDD. Can anyone advise?

Use a program like this
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/fastcopy_portable.html
It copies/moves data in an orderly fashion so it doesn't overload receiving disk.

 

[Misgar]

copying from SSD to a not-very-old, reformatted HDD

Are both drives mounted inside a desktop PC, or are you using USB?

I had problems copying files from a Kingston FCR-HS3 USB3 card reader to a laptop using a long (cheap) 0.50m (1.5ft) USB cable.

When I bought a high quality thicker USB3 cable 30cm (1ft) long, the problems went away.

If you are using USB, especially if you're connecting via front panel USB3 ports on a desktop PC, reduce the overall connection length (try the rear USB ports instead). This will reduce the amount of crosstalk.

I use Free File Sync for file transfers and run a bit-by-bit comparison after transfer, to check for corruption. It doubles the length of time taken to copy files, but provides peace of mind.
https://freefilesync.org/

On a different system, I traced file copy corruption to overclocked OCZ RAM (in an old Phenom II X4 955). Changing to Kingston RAM cured the problem.

It might be an idea to run MemTest86 on your system if you have a high XMP memory overclock that's verging on instability. Bad memory affects copying.

 

[popatim]

Have you checked the SMART of the drives? Esp the HDD. Post a link to a pic of the SMART and we'll let you know if its good or bad.