Fookin computers .. Tatts, Jax you two about?

Got a new extrnal USB drive to do some backing up.

Plug it in, no probs, recognised okay as having 78GB of spare space.

Start copying files to it and after about 8GB of files I get error messages telling me that the drive is full.

Check the properties on My Computer and it shows up as having plenty of spare space but I cannot copy anything else to it.

Checkdisk says there are no drive errors ... so I can't even sodding back anything up at the moment either.

I'm utterly stumped on this one ... any suggestions?

 

How is the drive formatted?

Cnn you tell if there are any partitions on the drive?</p>

Take a look in &quot;My Computer&quot; and right click the letter of the new drive. It should give you a pie chart along with details of the &quot;file system&quot; type.</p>

Does it say NTFS orFAT 32?</p>

 

Yer got further than I did with mine then!

 

O Joy... Microshit Windows

 

RE: How is the drive formatted?

Not sure how it was formatted as I'm halfway through re-formatting to NTFS in case that was the problem.

It's bundled as pre-formated for use with XP so I'd be surprised if it wasn't NTFS in the first place. Even if it was FAT32 that shouldn't 'surrepticiously' reduce the capacity down to 8GB from 78GB should it?