"Error code -36" Lost & Confused

[LightYagami]

Hi Everyone,
I was copying files from a USB drive to a Partition on my hard drive and a quarter of the way through it stopped with the following error message:

"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "FILENAME" could not be read or written.
(Error code -36)

So a quarter of the files were there, and the rest did not copy. When I tried to copy the rest I got the same message. So I tried to copy a file that had already been successfully copied, but now I received the same error message for those files as well. But when I tried copying them to my other partition on the same drive it worked fine. I am not super savvy with macs and am completely lost with this problem, googled it and came up with zip... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.
Byron

 

[MacDawg]

You might want to run Disk Utility to verify the partition

Go to Utilities -> Disk Utility
Select the partition from the column on the left
Run "verify" or "repair"

See if that helps!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[NP3]

As macdawg suggested run disk utility and repair both volumes. If one is your startup partion boot off your installion disk and run it from there. One of the files is probably corrupted.

 

[LightYagami]

Just got back from the bar, will try out that advice now, thanks guys...

 

[LightYagami]

HEy, so I tried that, and it came back
"Invalid number of allocation blocks
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."

and when I tried to repair it, the same message came up.

 

[MacDawg]

Looks like you need a reformat then

You can try Disk Warrior first if you are interested

And if you need to recover data, you can try Data Rescue II or File Salvage

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[LightYagami]

Okay, trying disk warrior right now, will let you know how it goes, hopefully I don't lose everything... thanks for help all.

 

[NP3]

I've had that error come up and diskwarrior was able to fix it. I doubt you'll have to reformat.

 

[MacDawg]

Okay, trying disk warrior right now, will let you know how it goes, hopefully I don't lose everything... thanks for help all.

Hope you will let us know how it turns out for you
Others will be interested to know the resolution for themselves later

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[LightYagami]

Hey, well I booted into diskwarrior and rebuilt the partition. It was very simple and straightforward. Booted back into OS X and it works fine now. Thanks MacDawg and NP3, your help is greatly appreciated.