external hard disk drives

[BirderOzzie]

hi guys,

yesterday i copied all my photos from one exernal hard drive to another one so that i would have a copy of all of them in case one of thee external hard drives went down. On going back to them today because i had realised that i had forgetten to copy them from somewhere else, i found that all the photos, but NOT THE FOLDER TITLES (eg. WWT 28-06-08 kingfisher) had gone, and when i try and copy something back to them the computer says "Cannot copy: cannot read from the source file or disk." I am now very worried that i will lose the other hard drive as well, losing all my photos. Also, when i try and delete a title folder (eg WWT 28-06-08 kingfisher), it says "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk." Does anyone here know what is wrong. it it the computer or has the external drive failed

Thanks

Oscar

 

[neil_g]

how do you copy the files and what operating system?

 

[BirderOzzie]

by highliting them all, pressing Ctrl+C and then using Ctrl+P to paste them where I want them to be. I use windows XP

 

[admirable]

It's control + v to paste?

 

[neil_g]

ctrl+p is usually print

 

[Chaz Photos]

best way is to right click drag and drop them as copy

 

[BirderOzzie]

sorry meant Ctrl+V
does anyone know what to do?

 

[admirable]

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[BirderOzzie]

thanks admirable, but when I click to download it it asks me what file i want to open it with and im afraind that i dont know the answer.

Oscar