External Hard Drive Back Up

I have an external hard drive that I use between the desktop and laptop. On Explorer it reads that I have 28 GB on the external hard drive but when I try to copy my files to it from the laptop, it says that there is not enough space on the external drive. I have emptied the recycle bin for files deleted on the hard drive to make space. I am a bit perplexed. Any suggestions?

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I'm assuming it worked OK with from your desktop from where you placed the files on it? I'm just throwing things out here, but can you format/delete it from the laptop using disk management? Update USB drivers? Putting it in a pc to test it? Different case, if you got one?






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It work from the laptop. I had backed up files (pix,music) from the external hard drive to DVD+Rs. I opened up 20 GB of space. However, when I try to use the 20 GB it says there isn't space. My guess is the FAT is messed up on the External drive. Anything else I can try other than deleting the hard drive since I would need to copy all I have to a DVD ?

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if either of your computer have space move your data to them temporary until you reformat your external drive. I use an external drive but I have everything backed up in to locaitons right now its all backed up on the external drive and also CD's. Some things are on the computer too. I like to be safe! I had one hard drive crash a few years ago and after it happens to you, you back up more often.

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Ok, I will try to back up to the desktop.

One final question. When I was backing up zipped applications from the hard drive on the desktop to the external drive, I was having errors when I tried opening up the zipped files. Is it possible that through transfers that the files get corrupted as they pass from one drive to the other (I have a FIREWIRE cable).

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Are both machines using Win XP? Win 98 only sees FAT 32 drives, and has a smaller size limit than XP. Some BIOS's also limit the drive size seen. I had to upgrade my desktop to XP, flash the BIOS and convert the FAT 32 external drive to NTFS to see the external's full 120 Gb.

P.S. You might also try to create multiple partitions on the external. That would require re-formatting or Partition Magic.

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The desktop is 98 and the laptop is XP.

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