HD Copying Corrupted Files

[eedmond]

Original setup 2 years ago: I had 2 Identical Maxtor SATA 150 160GB HD's. About a year ago 1 died and I lost all my data on it.

Fast forward to now, about 2 months ago I bought a new Seagate SATA 150 200GB HD. I installed it on the SATA 2 position. Everything working fine.

Problem: Whenever I copy data of any kind from my Maxtor to the Seagate directly, about 10% of the files become corrupted during the transfer. If I copy the files to a CD first then copy them to the Seagate, no problems. Or if Install a program from CD to the Seagate no problems. It's only direct HD to HD transfers that this corruption occurs.

Anybody know why? Never happened with my old Maxtor's.

[PBase001]

Do you have another SATA cable or another SATA position to try?

[eedmond]

But if it was the SATA cable then why does it not corrupt the info from the CD or other sources?

I don't think my board has any other SATA controllers on it to try.

[Platypus]

Have you checked to see if there are any driver updates on the board manufacturer's support site?

[PBase001]

There are no rhyme and reason to troubleshooting just process of elimiation.

If you assume you don't have a bad SATA cable and try everything else, it could've save you time just to try another cable simply to rule it out.

There are also conflicts on the motherboard itself as well as conflicts with drivers to worry about.

[eedmond]

Well I went to Silicon Image's website and found a new driver for it. I just installed it and copied some files from one hd to the other and no problems so far. So hopefully it was just a driver issue.