PSE 8.0 Backup problems

Hi!
I am trying to make backups of my catalogues to a separate hard drive.
Two out of three catalogues goes ok, but the last one makes PSE to hang after 64%, no matter how many times I try.
I have repaired the catalog, runned defrag + diskcheck on the (source) drive, tried to different target locations, all without any better result.
Anyone having any suggestions?
Computer is PC, Win7
Regards, Peter

Peter,
I am not an expert but is the problem catalog much larger than the ones that do work? How long do you wait?
I'm not sure but I think that the progress bar is worked out on the number of files. During the first 60%, PSE is copying the XML and XMP files which are quite small. The last 40% or so is when it copies the actual images which cam be quite large. If you have say 1000 pictures then each 1% can be about 300 images and if they are 2Mb, we are talking about the time to copy 500MB of data.
(hope I have my calculations correct)
Brian

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