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    copy file not working

    Hi,

    I was copying files from a corrupted windows installation onto an external drive using Knoppix. Everything was going great until I tried to copy the outlook.pst file (it's ~700mb). The copy stalled about 1/3 of the way through and now I can't see the file on the original hard drive.

    Is it gone? The drive was NTFS, so it should be read only.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!

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    the disk may verry well be heading towards the scrapheap, it may actually be physically damaged.
    I can only point you to making a search here in the forum (and the net) on smart tools, to check the health of the disk, also the command
    Code:
    dmesg
    in a console should NOT have a bunch of IO error (input/output) that is not a good sign.

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