Re: Disk size error
From: Phrank (no email)
Date: 11/01/04
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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 05:49:29 -0500
Hmmm, interesting. Thanks Richard. I just looked at the hardware in
my Device Manager, and there are a lot of entries under USB
Controllers. There are 8 entries just for the USB Root Hub and
several other entries, most of which are apparent duplicates. The
only difference between the duplicates, it seems, is in the I/O Range.
The USB Harddrive is does, however, show up under Disk Drives. More
or less, the computer is running fine, so I'm hesitant to do anything.
But would it be safe and a good idea to 'remove' all of the USB
entries and reboot and let the computer 'find' all its hardware again?
Thanks again!
Frank
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:57:24 -0000, "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Hello Phrank
>
>I just had a rummage thorugh the Norton 9.0 help files and after reading
>some bits about using USB hd's, I suspect that you have a driver problem.
>The Norton Help files mention:-
>
>USB/FireWire drive (local):-
>Must have supported storage device drivers to restore from the Symantec
>Recovery Disk CD; could require additional media along with the Symantec
>Recovery Disk CD
>
>...so it's at least a possibility that your USB hd hardware / pci usb2.0
>card ? has to be "supported" by Norton to work properly.
>
>regards, Richard
>
>
><Phrank> wrote in message news:9ut6o01fg19fqb4b23sjb5pkvpm6egrh3r@4ax.com...
>> 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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