Portable HDD Error message

[ROCCO]

There is a tool called “HDD Capacity Restore (http://hdd-tools.com/products/cr/download/crsetup.exe). You can install this and run it before bringing the hard drive back in for warranty.

[Ice]

yer good idea pete

us petes must stick together

Queensland, Pete, IT, Opels, Match made in heaven

[dieselhead]

What are you trying to copy? It won't work for files larger than 2GB (i.e. HD video) if the disk is formatted FAT32. You need NT to be able to handle very large files. Just another thing that could go wrong.

Go to My Computer, right-click then select Manage. Now go to disk Management and see if you can see your disk there. If not, there might be something wrong with the USB port, meaning that for some reason something went wrong when you plugged the disk in. To check if that's the case or not, go My Computer right-click then Properties/Hardware/Device Manager. Look for something with red cross in the USB area. If you see one, right-click to uninstall it. Now unplug the portable HDD and plug it back in after 10 seconds. If still not working, well, I'm out of ideas...

[AfterBurner]

Just format it using the method dieselhead mentions re Disk Management from the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Disk Management etc...

Make sure it's NTFS also... (Unless you intend running the external drive on a 98 machine or as a cheapass mediacenter like i do & plug it straight into ur LCD/PLASMA tele, you then MUST USE FAT32 )

AzzA

[McTwistie]

If you are mainly trying to find out where the disk space went you can download the "treesizepro" demo (Search Google) and it will find anything that may be hidden.

I would agree about going to NTFS though, as it's a much more robust system.

Cheers

[SIMid]

Cool!

I've uploaded everything off the HDD, reformatted it to NFTS (as it was in FAT mode). Now she's all good!

Thanks for the advice!