I/O Error When Transferring Files

 
I’ve been trying to transfer a large number of files between a portable Western Digital 250GB hard drive and a secondary drive on another computer via a network. I’m running XP Pro on my laptop.
Smaller files are usually okay, but when I try and transfer some larger ones over 2GB up to 5GB I’ll get the following just about every time.
The text of the error message is:
Cannot copy [FILENAME]: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

I’ve finally gotten the files moved where I need them to be, but the repeated error continues to bother …read more