PC shows External HD as full !

[Evanhoe]

Hi All,

I have a NexStar 3 External 3.5 inch Hard Drive enclosure which I have been using since 2006 without any problems until now.This is an 80 gb HD,of which only about 15 GB have been used.The other day I tried to add stuff for backup,and I was promptly advised that the disk was full ! Of course this is not so and would like to know how to fix this new problem.Can someone help? Thanks.

Van

[nitroshift]

What happens if you try to open it to see its contents?

[Ponch]

The other day I tried to add stuff for backup,and I was promptly advised that the disk was full !

Is it possible that "stuff" involved a file bigger than 4Gig and that the drive is formatted FAT32 ?

[Multibooter]

Maybe lost clusters or some other corruption, due to a prior bad shutdown?

[Evanhoe]

What happens if you try to open it to see its contents?

Hi again,

When I open my External HD enclosure,no problem there! I see all my stuff and, I can open Folders,

extract ect...the problem is I can't add anything in there!

This being a 80 gb HD,I checked the properties,and it shows 56.7 gb used!I then checked in the Partition

and it shows 74.53 gb capacity with 13 gb free space! What do you think? Thanks

[Evanhoe]

The other day I tried to add stuff for backup,and I was promptly advised that the disk was full !

Is it possible that "stuff" involved a file bigger than 4Gig and that the drive is formatted FAT32 ?

Hi again,

There are no files as big as you suggest,and upon checking my Partitions,I note that this External

HD is shown as NTFS ! Thanks

[Evanhoe]

Maybe lost clusters or some other corruption, due to a prior bad shutdown?

Hi again,

I woud'nt know how to check something like this,but as I mentioned previouly...

I can open Folders,extract ect...the problem is I can't add anything in there!

Thanks.