Re: Disk size error
From: Phrank (no email)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:44:53 -0400
Thanks CS,
The external HDD is using NTFS already. I was wondering if it had
something to do with the fact the the harddrive is attached via USB.
Frank
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:08:34 -0500, CS <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:28:14 -0400, Phrank <> wrote:
>
>Frank:
>
>You didn't say what file system you're using on your external USB HDD.
>If you're using FAT-32 on a drive that size, there would normally be a
>large amount of cluster slack and also a file size limitation of 4GB
>for the backup files. If your drive is formatted to NTFS, disregard.
>
>In any event, you might want to start over with the drive. Use the
>disk management program from XP to first remove the only partition and
>then re-create it. Format the drive using NTFS. Then try making
>backups including incrementals. I'm not familiar with using Ghost to
>make incremental backups as I've only used it to make full image
>backups. So I can't be sure what it does to the original image size.
>
>Let us know.
>
>>Hi Richard,
>>
>>Thanks for replying. I thought I had a fairly good grasp on computer
>>concepts, but quite possibly this is a point that I'm not clear on. I
>>am imaging my main C drive on my computer to the G drive (external
>>harddrive connected via USB, a completely different disk). The main
>>purpose behind purchasing the external harddrive was to hold backup
>>images and my music library. The external harddrive is not
>>partitioned, and the only thing I have on there is music and backups.
>>That's why I added up the disk space. And as I said, when I added it
>>up, it only came to about 40GB of the 80gb drive.
>>
>>Now here's a new twist. I maintain two full backups (father/son)
>>along with incremental backups inbetween, and I just deleted one of
>>the full backups and the three associated incremental backups that
>>were there, and lo and behold, the free space I thought should be
>>there 'returned'. To be clear, before deleting the images, I right
>>clicked on the external harddrive in My Computer and it showed the
>>disk to be full (only 112mb left on an 80gb harddrive). After
>>deleting that image file and incrementals, I checked again and it
>>showed more than half is the disk with free space. That image file
>>and associated incrementals were less than 10gb. There still should
>>have been at least 30gb of free space with the backups there. Thanks
>>again Richard.
>>
>>Frank
>>
>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 02:41:33 +0100, "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Norton Ghost 9.0 was probably telling you the "drive" (NOT DISK) was full.
>>>Quite why you charged off and added up the remaining disk space eludes me.
>>>You're only really concerned with the amount of free space on the DRIVE that
>>>you're ghosting to, rather, that there is enough space on that drive. As
>>>you already should know, Norton images to a file, or files, on the target
>>>drive - usually required to be on a different DISK to the source being
>>>backed up.
>>>
>>>regards, Richard
>>>
>>>
>>><Phrank> wrote in message news:10n5o0ti5eopqilnp1pq2rfl869a2no66c@4ax.com...
>>>> Good evening,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if this is the correct group to post this to or not, and
>>>> if it's not, I appologize. I do have Windows XP SP2, and I have an
>>>> 80GB Western Digital harddrive connected via USB to my computer (via a
>>>> USB 2.0 addon card.) I backup my computer using Norton Ghost 9.0, but
>>>> my last backup would not complete because it said the disk was full.
>>>> I looked at each directory on the drive and added up the space used to
>>>> get the total space taken up on the drive, and from my calculations,
>>>> there should be more than half the drive left. Why would this be
>>>> happening? Again, if I'm not in the correct group, I appologize and
>>>> please let me know what group I should be turning to. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Frank Bell
>>>
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