 Not Enough Room On My External Hd, wtf |
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| Not Enough Room On My External Hd, wtf |
 Nov 3 2009, 08:13 PM
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Best Female Pirate Picture 2009  Group: Contributor Posts: 1,051 Joined: 11-February 08 From: texas Member No.: 258,263  |
every so often i go and take all my movies of of my computer and put them onto my external. well last night i did it and all of a sudden it says there isnt enough room. so i went to my computer and looked to see how much room it said it had and it i have like 100GB of room left and i was only putting like 3GB of movies in there... whats up w\ this?
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Nov 3 2009, 09:58 PM
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1 Gold Star Contributor  Group: QSS Board Member Posts: 2,220 Joined: 9-October 07 From: that naughty fantasy you have Member No.: 147,937 |
how big is the drive? if your to close to capacity, they get finicky. (remember, a 500 gig drive is only 465 gigs storage)
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Nov 3 2009, 10:51 PM
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1 Gold Star Contributor Group: Contributor Posts: 1,343 Joined: 30-October 07 From: Hansweert Member No.: 157,217 |
@morph depends on your filesystem if this is the case or not =3
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Nov 4 2009, 02:56 AM
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4 Star Member  Group: Member Posts: 387 Joined: 11-December 07 Member No.: 190,267 |
QUOTE(gonewithoutthewind @ Nov 3 2009, 01:08 PM)  every so often i go and take all my movies of of my computer and put them onto my external. well last night i did it and all of a sudden it says there isnt enough room. so i went to my computer and looked to see how much room it said it had and it i have like 100GB of room left and i was only putting like 3GB of movies in there... whats up w\ this? Ive seen 1]virus's do this, or 2]your HD might be dieing,or 3]your HD cable (rare but can happen) 4] oh power supply too Its intermittent right? (IMG:http://static.quicksilverscreen.com/ipb/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0144-nod.gif) |
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Nov 4 2009, 03:49 AM
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1 Gold Star Contributor Group: Internet Cafe Moderator Posts: 1,347 Joined: 8-April 07 From: New England Member No.: 49,640 |
if your files are 4GB and bigger, then your drive will need to be formatted to if you are using windows XP.
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Nov 4 2009, 04:06 AM
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2 Star Member Group: Member Posts: 33 Joined: 22-March 07 From: england Member No.: 34,618 |
or in rare cases system restore from windows updates has sometimes saved to HDD. ( depends if the externals constantly plugged in -shadow copy file- ) try nuking the restore files on disk clean up under more options.
If not worse case full format of the external . This post has been edited by Exanox1981: Nov 4 2009, 04:07 AM |
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Nov 4 2009, 06:14 AM
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1 Gold Star Contributor Group: Internet Cafe Moderator Posts: 1,347 Joined: 8-April 07 From: New England Member No.: 49,640 |
yeah, only time I ever had this prob was under windows XP, and trying to move files 4GB or bigger to the drive, kept saying I was out of room (the drive was just as it was out of the retail packaging, I only use it to transfer files from one PC to another). If this is the case with your file sizes, you'll have to format the external from winXP if thats the OS you are using. Format it to NTFS after stashing your movies somewhere, then pile them all back on and you shuold be good to go. I suppose asking you what OS you are using would be a better first step....lol
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Nov 5 2009, 02:26 AM
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Best Female Pirate Picture 2009 Group: Contributor Posts: 1,051 Joined: 11-February 08 From: texas Member No.: 258,263 |
vista.....
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Nov 6 2009, 02:24 AM
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4 Star Member Group: Contributor Posts: 457 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Ireland, Co Kerry Member No.: 246,607 |
QUOTE(V1p3r @ Nov 4 2009, 02:44 AM) if your files are 4GB and bigger, then your drive will need to be formatted to if you are using windows XP. That could explain a problem I am having at the moment. Thanks Viper. This post has been edited by newfdribble: Nov 6 2009, 02:24 AM |
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