Files lost during cut and paste

Hi,

Plug in the external drive and perform a full computer virus scan to ensure that the internal drive and the external drives are free from virus.

Run a full computer scan with Microsoft Safety Scanner to make sure that the computer is virus free.

Microsoft Safety Scanner:http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

Safety Scanner Disclaimer: There could be a loss of data while performing a scan using Microsoft safety scanner to eliminate virus if any.

Further, if need be then you may perform check disk on the external drive.

Check a drive for errors: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

Important: While performing check disk on the hard drive, if any bad sectors are found, then check disk will try to repair that sector. Any data available on that sector might be lost.

Thanks.

My apologies Shenan, you're correct, I meant Ctrl-X, not Ctrl-V - that's what happens when you have to re-type a whole post in Internet Explorer because the forum doesn't like to work in Firefox!  :-/

I'm sorry that you haven't witnessed this behaviour in Windows 8 but I can assure you that it happened.  I've worked with PC's since 1989/90 and started out in DOS; I've installed OS's from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7 (haven't had a chance to install Win 8 on a new build yet), cleaned viruses and recovered files from broken hard drives, so I'm more experienced than your average user.

One thing I forgot to mention is that the drive that contained the backup copy of my files showed 74GB free space, but since I moved the initial 17Gb of files across onto my laptop, it now shows 241GB free - that's a heck of a lot more space freed up than the 16GB of data that ended up on my laptop.

LynetteC

Apologies if this appears twice, but I'm unable to find my original post after an hour of waiting for it to appear on the forum.

I have an extensive karaoke collection (150GB) stored on an external drive.  I couple of weeks ago I decided to make a backup on a second external drive which I did by connecting both drives to my Windows 8 laptop (Home Edition, OEM).  There were no error messages and the task seemed to complete without any issues, however, I found today that only 17GB had been copied.

 

I decided to move what had been copied onto my laptop to clear the space and again everything seemed to go to without a hitch but this time none of the mp3 files were transferred across, although they had been removed from the source disk during the cut and paste process.

 

It's lucky that I still have the original copy otherwise I'd be facing weeks of re-ripping CDs.

 

#Is this a bug in Windows 8?  If so, it's a critical one as moving files around is a fundamental part of an operating system.

 

I'd be interested in feedback from somebody from Microsoft, but please, don't tell me that I should use Ctrl-C instead of Ctrl-V.  The function is available and should work - even DOS had an operational MOVE command.

 

LynetteC

CTRL+C is copy.

CTRL+V is paste.

I have no idea why some one would tell you to use COPY instead of PASTE.

Did you mean CTRL+C instead of CTRL+X?

I have copied terabytes (at once) of data on Windows 8 to various external media - I have not witnessed what you say is happening.