thanks for taking the time to reply guys:
Conan -
was moving originally, tried copying on your advice but unfotunately with no success. Each track takes approx 1 sec and you can then see it try to move/copy one for about a minute before it gives up.
newswatcher-
Operating XP. I am copying from a pretty simple path c/shared/docs/my music or similar to h/music. The really puzzling thing is that it will copy some of the problem files on further attempts!
The only other unusual thing is that my laptop (On Win ME) has no probs with the drive wheras my desktop regognizes it as a 'phantom reader' - a drive with a RAW data system and 0GB storage unless I put it through a USB hub/splitter (instead of directly to a USB port) in which case it recognises it as a 160 GB drive with 10Gb of info on it! It has been disappearing while playing music from it only to reappear a min later but I (probably incorrectly) thought this was to do with the severe lack of room on my integral drive and buffering issues etc.
