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Hey people i am having a problem of not being able to copy and paste anything out of the current drive to another drive..can someone tell me what is wrong..???

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Quick, focused steps to isolate this without formatting the drive. you already tried AVG and Glary (good start); and raised the usual suspects. Because the upgrade also failed with file-copy errors, treat this as a possible Explorer/permissions or disk-health issue and work from least-destructive to most-destructive fixes.

First, rule out Explorer/clipboard: try copying plain text from Notepad into another Notepad window. If that works but Explorer paste is still greyed, restart Explorer (Task Manager → End Process explorer.exe, then File → New Task → explorer.exe) and try again. Also try a command-line file copy to bypass Explorer:

copy "C:\path\yourfile.ext" "D:\targetfolder\"

If the command-line copy works, the problem is Explorer/shell extensions.

Next, check the destination drive itself: confirm free space, the file system (FAT32 vs NTFS), and any disk quotas or read-only mounts. Check folder and drive permissions (Security tab) — a denied ACL will grey out Paste. If user profile corruption is suspected, try copying while logged into or creating a different local administrator account.

To rule out third-party interference, perform a Safe Mode or Clean Boot test (msconfig) and disable non-Microsoft shell extensions (use a shell-explorer tool if comfortable). Because the upgrade copy failures can point to file system corruption or failing media, back up any irreplaceable files now — connect the disk to another PC or boot a Linux/WinPE environment and copy data off before further repairs.

Final checklist: (1) quick clipboard/Explorer restart, (2) try command-line copy, (3) verify free space, FS type and permissions, (4) Safe Mode / new user test, (5) backup and check drive health (SMART/Event Viewer). Only format or reinstall after data is safely backed up.

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Member Avatar for slash49er

I need more info. What is happening/not happening? What is the error? What are you running?

Member Avatar for rishu_k

Thanks for replying buddy.there is no error.whenever i select something and copy it i cant paste it to another drive.The paste option is not highlighted.Control c and control v are also not working..

what do
i do.

Member Avatar for slash49er

have you ran an anti spy and virus scanner to ensure that isn't the problem? Spybot searh and destroy is a good one for spyware. Glary utilities is an excellent freeware that will clean your registry. AVG or AVAST are good free antivirus programs.

if all this fails, a XP repair installation should do the trick. I had a similar problem with not being able to send files to email from a folder and a repair install was the only way to get it fixed.

PS. Are you able to copy from one folder to another on the same drive? Maybe there is a problem with your permissions on one of the drives

Member Avatar for rishu_k

thanks for the reply.I have already scanned the whole sys with AVG.

Member Avatar for slash49er

Also scan for spyware and clean the registry with Glary.

It might save you alot of time in doing a repair install

Member Avatar for rishu_k

Ya i shall try that..thanks pal

Member Avatar for rishu_k

Basically u are asking me to scan the system again and clean it with glary right??

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ya i just installed glary and i scanned for issues.I have repaired them as well.Will try now to copy and paste.

Member Avatar for rishu_k

no buddy..Its still the same.no difference...what do i do now.

Member Avatar for slash49er

how long has this been a problem???

Member Avatar for rishu_k

ok i tried upgrading the current version of windows with my friends cd but while preparing for installation there were two messages which said the following

cant copy file a9ugw9o8.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a9ugw9o8.sys
and the other file was

cant copy file a59run30a.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a59run30a.sys

what do i do??

Member Avatar for Frank Wallis

no buddy..Its still the same.no difference...what do i do now.

First please tell us which OS are you using?
Are you trying to copy the data to another partition on the same Hard Drive or to another Hard Drive?

If you are trying to copy the data from one partition to another in the same Hard Drive than make sure that another partition is properly formatted.

Just go to My Computer and right click on the (destination)partition where you want to paste the copied data and click on format.

properly format that partition or the Hard Drive where you want to copy the data and then try doing it.

Member Avatar for Frank Wallis

ok i tried upgrading the current version of windows with my friends cd but while preparing for installation there were two messages which said the following

cant copy file a9ugw9o8.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a9ugw9o8.sys
and the other file was

cant copy file a59run30a.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a59run30a.sys

what do i do??

Are you trying to upgrade or just reinstall the Windows XP?

1st of all upgrading OS has nothing to do with the problem of data copying.

There could be a problem with the partition or the Hard Drive where you want to copy the data?

1st tell us which OS are you using ?


Just boot your computer normally as you do and then go to command prompt and use the command "Chkdsk /r"

Use this command and then let us know what result you get from this.

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It might also be that the files do not exist on the source disk, or that the destination disk is full.

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