I have Windows 7 Pro 32 bits, attempting to copy large files (over 1 GB) from one of my external USB drives to another does not work. Same thing from the USB drive to the pc drive. The file transfer starts and then quickly slows down to a crawl and then sits there for hours.
Files less than 1 GB transfer fine. With or without my antivirus, no difference. I've also tried disabling remote differential compression, no change either. And ditto for TeraCopy, same exact thing.
Any ideas?
Best Answer
I have the same issue with network drives.
I have tried MANY things, however, unfortunately I was unable to find a resolution using Windows Explorer / GUI.
The two solutions I came up with in the end were either to use the command prompt which worked very well - just a little annoying, and in the end I settled with (Teracopy, available on Ninite for easy installation).
With Teracopy, I find that it takes a little longer to start (talking ~1-2 seconds) which is annoying with small files where Windows would be instant (and 95% of my file operations), however, on large files or when using a lot of little files, it is a brilliant tool with many advantages over the standard Windows GUI. For this reason, I do no use it as the default file copy, but when doing large or complex operations, I always use it.