External Hard Drive Problem

[Graham81]

I have just purchased a Freecom External USB Classic Hard Drive (250GB). It installed fine and works fine on my XP PC. However I have noticed that when I transfer a large amount of photos to it, some of the files are corrupted and the images altered.

Does anyone know why this could be? Also, if I were to return it, is there a similar spec drive out there that you could recommend?

Regards

 

[Igorian]

Is there anything else connected to the same USB channel?

What file system are you using?

In what way are the images altered?

What is the full spec. of your system?

 

[Graham81]

Sorry for the delay in returning a reply.

I forgot the golden rule, always format drives, even if they are new. As soon as I formatted it (forgot to do it when I got it) it worked a treat.