OK, so now my PC recognizes and shows the external FAT32 hdd and let's me write to it (after I uncheck the read only box). Problem is when I select multiple dir from source drive (dead XP partition) and paste onto the ext. HDD, it doesn't actually copy. It counts the # of files & dir's. When that's done, it shows "stalled" on bottom left of the 'copy file progress' window; nothing actually proceeds to copy.
I am able to create folders and copy a test file.
Am I exceeding a max copy buffer or something?