Moving a photo element

Every time I try to move a section of a photo with the Rectangular Marquee Tool, I get an error message saying "Less than 50% of the pixels have been selected and they edges of the sections cannot be seen.  What am I doing wrong?

After you drag out the marquee press Ctrl+J and that will place it on a new layer.
Or simply copy and paste by pressing Ctrl+C
Then go to your next image or document and press Ctrl+V

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