Your HDD is probably starting to die. I suggest to backup everything you need, since it may fail soon.
Btw, "soon" could mean next day,month and even year.
My laptop has been saying that it's going to die soon since January and it's November right now and it still works.
I do get however sometimes the error you posted above.
Btw, does the HDD make any unusual noise when you try to copy that particular file?
Also go to the event viewer -> system. Do you see any disk errors/warnings (like the ones in the attachment
) ?
Btw, what linux distro are you using?
I suggest
Puppy Linux since it has full NTFS support (well, ubuntu 7.10 also has full NTFS support but it is slow when booting from CD
).
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