Evanhoe Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 What happens if you try to open it to see its contents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multibooter Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Maybe lost clusters or some other corruption, due to a prior bad shutdown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanhoe Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 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 Partitionand it shows 74.53 gb capacity with 13 gb free space! What do you think? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanhoe Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 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 ExternalHD is shown as NTFS ! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evanhoe Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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