[jamroom]

lol - found the problem. As I have four hdds and most of them have partitions, I failed to notice that the partition I was transferring to was on a hdd I suspect to be on the way out. What a f**king knobhead. :-)

I can see a new internal hdd and a couple of externals coming up this weekend...

Thanks for the reply anyway Pawel - mine are all UDMA.