Problems copying many files to/from WDTV attached hard drive

[TwistedPair]

Greetings! I have noticed a problem I have copying many files to or from a Seagate 1TB hard drive attached to my WDTV Live Streaming box over my LAN.

When I've tried this using TotalCommander I usually end up getting a "Cannot write to read-only device. Remove the write protect" message from Windows (Vista) after which it seems the WDTV box no longer appears on the LAN at all.

Is there a fix for this that I can apply in TotalCommander? I've been opening the destination directory using winows explorer and copying from TotalCommander to that folder instead using Windows copying routines...

Thanks for any help.

[sqa_wizard]

Some more info will be helpful:

How do you access the hard disk ?
- drive letter
- UNC (\\mydrive)
- ftp
- through Network Neighborhood

How do you copy the files ?
- Drag'n'Drop
- F6
- Copy / Paste

[TwistedPair]

sga wizard:
I access the HD in question through UNC as it is a share of the WDTV box. Usually by F5 or Drag'n'Drop.

[sqa_wizard]

I had a similar problem with a weak external disk.
For me it helped to set an option at:

Configuration - Options -Copy/Delete:
- Unselect "Use Standard copy method"
- Select option "Use compatibility mode for the following drive"
- Enter just a backslash at the acc. field (set for network drives)

[TwistedPair]

I had a similar problem with a weak external disk.
For me it helped to set an option at:

Configuration - Options -Copy/Delete:
- Unselect "Use Standard copy method"
- Select option "Use compatibility mode for the following drive"
- Enter just a backslash at the acc. field (set for network drives)

Ahh! This seems to have fixed the problem. Also when I went to that Options section I noticed that "Use Big File Copy Mode" was selected with a rather large copy/block size. So I changed it back to Standard mode.

Thanks very much sqa_wizard!