Re: USB External Disk Drive Problem

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Mick Biel wrote:
I have an issue with my USB external disk drives. I'm running Windows XP SP 3 for starters. I have two external disk drives attached to my computer (one WD 250GB and one WD 500GB). The problem occurs when I do a backup to the 500GB external drive. The back up gets to around the 70% complete mark and then stops with a I/O device error. This the point where the verify pass should start. When I try the same backup to the 250GB drive, the backup completes successfully without any problems. I've tested the 500GB drive, and there is nothing wrong with it. I'm using Norton Save and Restore 2.0 for the backup jobs. When I was using version 1.0 of this software, I didn't have any problems backing up to either external drive. Version 2.0 of S&R is for XP and Vista. This is a weird issue. Does anyone have a solution to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

/Mike

Is the drive formatted NTFS?
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