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Hi, I have a problem at work with a stand alone PC. It is a PII 450mhz IBM IntelliStation running WinNT 4.0, service pack 6 with 192MB of RAM. All of a sudden, we are unable to copy files from folder to folder on the hard drive, to a floppy disk or vice versa. Tried doing Cut & Paste, Copy & Paste, Drag & Drop but nothing happens and no error displays neither. Funny thing it's that I was able to copy files in command prompt. Anyone have any idea what might of cause this or how to fix it. Please help!!!

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by bhrdwh

1. Check for disk space on the drive
2. Check for folder security - NTFS / Shared. On NTFS we usually share a folder & accidently dont grant any access to the folder to Administrator. Check for users-access
3. Install Norton Antivirsu & scan your disks.
4. Download the latest Disk-keeper for NT & do a defrag the entire disks partitions.
I am sure one of he above will prove useful.
Akash
Akashdeep_b@yahoo.com

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There's over 5GB of space free. I already check all the user rights and retook ownership of the entire drive. Also scanned the PC with Norton Antivirus ver. 7.01 with the latest updates. The only thing I haven't tried was the defrag with Disk-Keeper. I don't think defragging will help me resolve this problem I'm having... got any more suggestions?

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I reinstalled Service Pack 6 and everything seems to be fine.

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