I needed room on my gaming laptop because I had less than 100MB left so I decided to copy over the files from Last Epoch to an external hard drive so I wouldn’t have to download 20+ Gigs all over again. I’d just copy them right back once I wanted to play again. Turns out this is where I went wrong…
It wouldn’t even let me copy them completely. It started but then maybe 1/5th of the way through, it basically stopped and ran into an error trying to copy (can’t remember the name, but one of the many files with a similar name, where most of the bulk is). Now I can’t even access the drive itself because it’s ‘corrupted’ in some fashion, probably messed up the File Allocation Table or some such thing.
So just a caution to those with a similar idea. I’m out about $100 and can’t recover the data on there unless I want to pay much, much more than that. Don’t make my mistake.
Are you saying that attempting to copy to the external drive failed? Or from the external drive back to your laptop failed?
I’m assuming the latter. Is your external drive corrupted? Have you tried to run chkdsk on it or other troubleshooting steps? The data might be recoverable depending on what is going on.
I have done this numerous times without any hassles to usb3.0 external harddrives. I have even copied the entire EHG installation to internal backup harddrives and never had a problem…
Are you sure that the reason this failed is not related to the 100MB free space you had left? I am assuming you are using Windows… if you have less physical space than RAM left, Windows will do some seriously odd things and large copying will definitely suffer… Swap files & Recycle Bins etc also start to have huge problems with this small amount of space left.
I do not think that this is related to EHG but more a general warning about trying to copy a large amount of files with such a small amount of free space left on your system…
Personally I would have started smaller to clear up enough space before trying to backup something as big as the LE install folder…
Side note: remember your savegame files are not in the game install folder so you have to backup them separately - they are in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Eleventh Hour Games
I doubt your EHD is beyond repair… it probably just needs a repartition or even just a reformat…
Sorry to hear about your issues. I can assure you that it’s nothing to do with the files themselves though. I have copied the game and config files from drive to drive about 5 times now without any problems at all. This is across 3 separate and different HD’s, 2 ssd’s & 1 platter.
As SirFreckle indicates, it is more likely that some corruption has occurred. It’s impossible to exactly determine the cause without access to the drive and doing tests. It could be corruption, permission issues, file system problems, bad sectors, or any number of things.
You’re probably right. Very likely you’re right. Thanks for the insight, I didn’t consider the space left on the system affecting the copying process. I just assumed, falsely, that it was the files themselves. Gracias! Really… makes me feel a bit better.
The attempting to copy to the EHD failed. It started fine but then just… stopped. It was “trying” but it just couldn’t do it. Shrugs
I believe the troubleshooting also failed. FIrst I tried the scanning the drive and then that failed, and then went with the Scan and Repair option and that also failed.
Oh well. I’ll try other options suggested here and if those don’t work, I’ll just take it as an expensive lesson learned. Very appreciative of the informed suggestions. It’s good to know these kinds of things for the future.
That is not a good sign, not a good sign at all. First off, it is not YOUR fault or anything you are doing. That points towards some sort of drive failure. I assume it is the EHD that you are scanning from the working OS drive. Sounds like you have a bad drive on your hands.
There are various free to download analysis tools that you could try. Windows in-built error checking tools aren’t the greatest… I would try a dedicated software scanner first and see if the drive itself has bad sectors on it, and indeed if it is beyond repair. If that’s the case, and it is still in warranty, send it back for a replacement.
You can try to start with Windows cleanup utility to gain some disk space. Open “This Computer” then right click on system drive and choose “Properities” then click on “Clean disk” button and it will show you how much space you can gain by deleting temporary files. There is also advanced “System files cleanup” which delete old Windows patch files etc.
You can also gain some more space on smaller HHD in notebook by turn off hybernation mode which will save disk space as large as is your RAM capacity. Sleep mode is most of time sufficient on notebook.
Also check your external drive SMART status in “Crystal Disk Info” for example.
To add to the cleaning suggestions, there’s also a tool called ccleaner which many people use due to its simplicity. It’s easily found with a google and its also free. The options in it are pretty self explanatory, just be careful using the registry cleaner section if you’re not 100% sure on what you’re doing in there.
Agreed for the most part. I think the “disk cleaner” part of it is pretty safe. I’ve had 2 of my more PC Illiterate mates who I do “help me” assist for use that feature without any problems. If they can do it, then a trained chimp can. It only cleans out the bog standard places for the most part, temp files, old install files, rubbish bin, caches, etc.
However, the other features such as registry cleaner etc, I would not recommend at all unless you’re a geek. If I could disable those altogether for my mates, I would.
Sadly Killerek, I think that a large number of PC users shouldn’t be able to do half of what they can; as not many people ever take the time to actually read up/learn about what they’re using on a daily basis in any great detail. One of my mates drives around in an electric car every day, and he hasn’t ever once even opened the user manual. His preferred learning method is “press everything and see what it does”… Not my cup of tea, I read manuals, but I guess I am the weirder/more unusual one.
I don’t think many people use the manual for a car until they need to know what that icon on the dashboard is. Or if they’re trying to find something in a new car.
