Problems backing up, is it the internal hd or the external hd.
I have an early Intel MBP with a replaced Western Digital 750Gb internal drive I installed about 2 years ago. The machine is slow and I haven't even gotten it into Snow Leopard, let alone Lion, so the time has come: wipe this drive clean and do a fresh install.
I bought a new WD 2Tb external, formatted for Windows and reformatted for Mac (Mac OS Journaled I believe). When I'm copying data over, I am getting a LOT of -36 errors, data can't be read or copied. It could just be w few bad sectors on the internal drive, but I'm getting an awful lot of bad errors. Of course I have to force quit Finder when I get those errors. So copying files is becoming beyond tedious, not to mention I'm trashing whatever problematic files I can catch (none of them so far are that important). But I can't copy over 500gigs and walk away. Doing it piecemeal is painful too.
I'm guessing, hoping, it's the internal drive. I doubt it's the new drive, but not sure. Any ideas on how to transfer data more efficiently or remedy the situation? I'm verifying permissions in Disk Utility now, but not sure if that will help anyway.
Thanks in advance Apple Discussiion Board,
Lee
Mac SE, P-book 160,MacMini,G3,G5,MBP, iPad, lots of boxes with lights and things, Mac OS X (10.5.8), ipad, desk, chair, lamp.....