Brennan’s Blog

A couple of weeks ago I had a problem with my USB drive. As I copied large files (over 400MB) the USB connection would fall and drop the drive. To cope with it I created the Slow Copy Utility which worked a couple of times, but it is still not reliable. Someone suggested to me that changing the USB cable may fix the problem, and I tried that. And I am happy to report that it works! The cable that came with the external drive is the one that was failing. Now I can reach my 500GB SATA drive where I have copied tons of my data, including the ISO files I have pulled down from MSDN.