Computer hard locks when copying from USB drive to internal drive

[flwolf]

I have a Maxtor Onetouch external hard drive. I'm trying to copy data from that drive to my internal storage drive. I can start copying files but after a short while the computer locks up completely. I then reboot and I can start copying again until it locks soon after. I've tried all the front and rear USB ports with the same result. I also have two other external drives that do the exact same thing I'm using an ECS SN1 SLI motherboard.

Any suggestions?

 

[jpmkm]

Almost sounds like a driver issue. Do you have the latest usb/chipset drivers installed?

 

[flwolf]

Yep, I have the lastest drivers.

I seem to have found the problem, albeit a strange one. The internal storage drive is a new one that I just installed. It took the drive letter of E (after my boot drive and optical drive). I noticed after awhile that the E drive was shared and I knew for a fact that I didn't turn on share for that drive. I looked at the properties of the drive and it had the share name of one of my external drives that was unplugged. I changed the drive letter of the internal drive and I have had zero lockups since then.

 

[flwolf]

Well, it appears that the problem has returned. I was trying to copy from one external USB drive to another external USB drive. The computer hard locks every time I try it. I then tried copying from external drive to the internal and it worked fine. I then tried copying from the internal to the external and it locked up again.

For a test I tried doing this on my laptop and it works perfectly fine. All drivers are updated on the desktop machine.

Any ideas?