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External HD - Says HD's Full and there's 220gb free space!

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RyBoy

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I've tried sending a dvd (ripped) across the network and it says halfway through the transfer that the HD's full. I knew it wasn't, haven't put much on it, and there is 220gb of free space!

So, I tried ripping a dvd on the computer that the external hd (ripped the dvd straight to external hd) is hooked up to and once again around 80% done it mysteriously says that the external hd is full! The external hd is not even close to full! What's going on, is my external hd bad or what?
 
I guess I'd try moving everything that is on it to another drive and formatting it. Then you can move things back to it and see if that fixes your problem.
 
Is your ext HD formatted as FAT32? Most are out of the box.

FAT32 has a max file size of approx. 4GB. If so, reformat to NTFS and you'll be ok.
 
Okay great guys, I did not format it out of the box. Only question is how do I format an external hard drive to ntfs?
 
Right click on the external hard drive in My Computer, select Format... and make sure that under "File System" it says NTFS and click start.
 
Or if you just want to convert it....

Start -> Run -> cmd

convert x: /fs:ntfs
where x: is the drive letter. Note that there's no space between /fs and :ntfs.
 
1st thing you should do is run Chkdsk /r. Confirm there's no errors on the volume itself. Deleting the entire volume or attempting to convert is a knee jerk action without analysis.

Also the good thing about Chkdsk is that it reports everything in use. Windows Explorer does not in its free space calculation. That's a fact. For instance Windows Explorer would not report ADS, Alternate Data Stream, files that are hidden but can consume large portions.

ADS linked files are a pain since you never know they exist until you run into file problems. ADS isn't usually a problem unless you have a mixed network environment with Apple and Unix. But I've noticed more Windows programs using ADS for 'extra' features. Roxio 8 is a clear example.
 
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