Hi, I recently bought a new computer. In order to transfer my files from my old computer to my new one I put everything on 2 hard drives - one being my Western Digital My Book 320GB External Hard Drive. Now, I had no problems with the first drive, and so all my music files were transfered successfully. But the second drive has issues; It is recognised by the computer fine, and I can open it and look at the files. Some files I can even transfer onto my computer. But certain files (all from the same couple of folders) - even though they show up in explorer - can't be opened. When I try to copy them to my computer, Vista says it is working out the remaining time but then can't get any further, causing explorer to crash if I try to cancel it. These files are a mixture of pictures and videos and Vista shows no preview of them even though they are in thumbnail view. Now, I've checked and the files in question are fine when I plug the drive into my old computer AND my laptop, which leads me to think that there is an issue with Vista. A search on google flags up lots of posts about Vista not recognising external Hard drives, but nothing quite like this, so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Cheers! Matt

Has the new PC got ServicePack1?, I had similar issues which were resolved after the update. "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..."