External Hard Drive problem

[AlucardXXVII]

I just bought an external hard drive to help with my dvd backup process. I wanted to keep some of the .iso files I make on it.

I have been using DVD Decrypter to rip all the stuff I want into my external drive, then I use DVD Shrink to reauthor it as an .iso on my laptop drive. Now that I'm trying to transfer all the .iso files to the external drive, I keep getting the message "not enough space on drive, run disk cleanup..." etc.

The drive is 120 Gb. It's unused completely. I've been transferring smaller files to and from it, but my image files won't go.

What's the deal?

I'm on Windows XP SP2 =)

Thanks

[budz]

do you have NORTONS PROTECTED RECYCLE BIN? if you do disable it. do a search at the SYMANTEC website on how to disable it. i'd post a link but i'm not on my regular pc.

[AlucardXXVII]

No I don't. Any other ideas?

Thanks

[canadateck]

How is the drive formatted?

[canadateck]

Fat32? You want NTFS,It handles files that are over 3Gb.

[AlucardXXVII]

you know, i'm not really sure, i will check on it and see. xp is formatted for ntfs, maybe the drive isn't.

thanks guys

[BetaMaster]

I ran into a similar problem with my antique Jaz disc. Although it held 1GB, a lot of small files seemed to prevent me from writing anything more to it.

It turned out that I had been storing all the files on the root directory of the disc, and the disc directory system could only recognize a small, finite number of files before it couldn't get any more on there. All I had to do was make a few folders and put the files in the folders.

[black1widow]

I had a similar problem first are you using usb2 on your laptop to the writer as I found usb1 kept locking out

[Capmaster]

Moving to Computer forum ...

[Bodyslide]

Is it possible that the Laptop is running out of Disk Space? Maybe something to do with the temp space on the laptop.

[Skith]

IIf the external drive is new, it is most likely does not have a filesystem on it. I would recommend formatting it with NTFS. To do so, open up windows explorer, and right click on the drive letter assigned to the external disc. Choose Format, select NTFS from the dropdown list and tick the "full format" option. Click OK and let it run. the process could take several hours.

****WARNING!!!**** Be sure to select the correct drive. Should you accidentally choose an the wrong drive, all data on said drive will be lost!!!

Another option is to use a tool like Partition Magic.

[smearbrick1]

IIf the external drive is new, it is most likely does not have a filesystem on it. I would recommend formatting it with NTFS. To do so, open up windows explorer, and right click on the drive letter assigned to the external disc. Choose Format, select NTFS from the dropdown list and tick the "full format" option. Click OK and let it run. the process could take several hours.

****WARNING!!!**** Be sure to select the correct drive. Should you accidentally choose an the wrong drive, all data on said drive will be lost!!!

Another option is to use a tool like Partition Magic.

I'd imagine if the guy/gal was using the drive, it had a file system. (kind of impossible to use an unformatted drive under windows). However, if it is FAT32, all you have to is convert the filesystem to NTFS. This will not affect your existing files and you will not have to format the drive.