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Name: Bill MacLean
Date: October 15, 2009 at 07:18:10 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Product: Western digital / Wd16003612
Subcategory: Hardware Problems
Comment:

I am trying to back up my C drive, which has about 35 GB on it, to a WD external hard drive, which has over 100 GB free. I am using Retrospect 6.5, which came with the hard drive. After about 4-5 GB of back up has occurred, it get an error message that the WD disc is full. I have degramented and run other test of WD and it seems fine. I can drag and drop whatever I want. Can you explain/help? Thanks



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Name: T-R-A
Date: October 15, 2009 at 07:23:47 Pacific
Reply:

What are the formats of both drives (NTFS, FAT32)?

If your trying to move a file greater than 4GB onto a FAT32 drive, then you may get an error:

http://www.genie-soft.com/asp/commu...


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Response Number 2
Name: Bill MacLean
Date: October 15, 2009 at 07:32:39 Pacific
Reply:

The hard drive in the laptop is NTFS. On the WD external drive FAT 32. I checked and there are no files close to 4 GB in size.


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Response Number 3
Name: T-R-A
Date: October 15, 2009 at 07:38:26 Pacific
Reply:

You might want to read the last comment on this page (albeit an old article) regarding errors on Retrospect 6.5. Doesn't look like it got a lot of favorable user reviews:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,281...

Personally, I use Cobain 8 and never had any problems with it:

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/inde...


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Response Number 4
Name: Bill MacLean
Date: October 15, 2009 at 08:09:53 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks. I'll read the article. I was looking at Cobian 8 while waiting for answers.


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