Back-Up Problem

[Joseph Meehan]

A few weeks ago I replaced my USB drive I used for back-up with a new
larger one.

At the next scheduled backup, everything went as expected and the backup
was completed. The files are still there.

Since that time several scheduled back-ups and a few manual back-ups
have all failed. The drive shows no apparent change in the files and the
backup ends with a error message that it was not able to compete the back-up
and to check the drive.

I can save and delete files to that drive. Space should not be a
problem as it is considerably larger than the prior drive. (old 80G new
160G)

I had not experienced any problems with the prior drive. Both the old
and new drives are HP Pocket drives.

Trying the old drive does allow the process to start, but it now ends
with an out of space warning. Not surprising as I bought the new drive
because I new I was close and I feared the media files I was adding might
take it over the limit. The current total usage of my C: drive is about
96G (Recovery D: is 8G.

Is there some kind of size limit here.

I am running Vista 32 bit with 4 Gig RAM.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Charlie]

I've had somewhat similar issues and tracked it down by looking in
Device Manager and noticing that USB Mass Storage device had the
yellow "!" next to it. Once I got that matter resolved my USB issues
went away. I do not recall the actual fix but I would think checking
Device Manager would be a good preliminary step in troubleshooting.
You may require an updated driver for the new drive as well. Good
luck.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Thanks for your suggestion. It sounded promising and I checked it out.
Sorry it did not work for me. The device manager could not find any
problems nor could a newer driver be found.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

A few weeks ago I replaced my USB drive I used for back-up with a new
larger one.

At the next scheduled backup, everything went as expected and the
backup was completed. The files are still there.

Since that time several scheduled back-ups and a few manual back-ups
have all failed. The drive shows no apparent change in the files and the
backup ends with a error message that it was not able to compete the
back-up and to check the drive.

Sounds like the error reporting is not as helpful as it should be.

I can save and delete files to that drive. Space should not be a
problem as it is considerably larger than the prior drive. (old 80G new
160G)

I had not experienced any problems with the prior drive. Both the old
and new drives are HP Pocket drives.

OK, so it's really a 2.5" laptop drive in a case, branded by HP.

For information, decent cases for those drives start at around $15, and you
can put in the drive of your choice.

Trying the old drive does allow the process to start, but it now ends
with an out of space warning. Not surprising as I bought the new drive
because I new I was close and I feared the media files I was adding might
take it over the limit. The current total usage of my C: drive is about
96G (Recovery D: is 8G.

Is there some kind of size limit here.

If you look at the properties of the drive in Disk Manager, is it formatted
FAT32 or NTFS?

If it's FAT32, that's likely the source of the problem, as that doesn't
support creation or storage of a file over 4 gig.

HTH
-p-k

 

[Ed H]

Must be formatted to NTFS. My usb hd was FAT32 by default.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD

 

[Joseph Meehan]

OK last night at the regularly scheduled time it had a successful
backup. I did nothing that I know of that should have made any difference.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

It is still functioning as it should. ...

OK last night at the regularly scheduled time it had a successful
backup. I did nothing that I know of that should have made any
difference.