Hi all, I'm having a problem when transferring files to my new HDD. Part of the message says:

"Error 0x80007045D. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."

Dont think theres any pattern with which files it happens with. It re-occurs if i click "try again" but i've had it with some files where a few days later when i've tried again its been ok.

The hard drive is a Samsung Spinpoint something or other, can find out the exact model if its needed? and i'm running vista if that makes any difference?

Any help is appreciated

Cheers,

Ben

did you upgrade to vista or did you buy a new pc?or a new hd.also i would like the exact model of the Hd as it might not be completely vista compatable.Most companies didnt make new vista drivers.

I had a new vista PC then got this HDD seperately. Its a Samsung HD501LJ, found the website here:

SAMSUNG's Digital World - SpinPoint T Series | HD501LJ

Couldn't find anything about vista on it though?

Hi guys, all hard drives are "vista compatible".

It could be the drive itself, and infact i'd immediately think this.
Samsung drives aren't known for being very reliable.

I was afriad i'd get that responce Is there anything i can do to check to confirm it is the drive?

It looks like you were right GaRHaR, Samsung have told me that "In regards to the problem you are experiencing, it would indicate there is a physical problem with the drive and more than likely if the problem has gotten worse then it will continue to deteriorate till the point where the drive fails."

Well they were right and last night my computer stopped accessing it but still recognises there is a Hard drive connected.

In my Disk manager, it has the hard drive as an unformatted drive too which worries me.

Is there anything i can do to try and recover what was on the drive?? I'm sure i've read/heard before that even when you delete files theres some programs that can recover 90% of things?

Thanks, Ben.