I have purchased a WD 160gb USB external hard drive. I plugged it in last evening and used it like a flash pen. I used the drop down menu and 'Send To'. This all appeared OK but!!!!!!!!!! Tonight I thought that I would set up an automatic update but I keep getting error 0x81000008 and a message telling me that the back up has failed.
I have googled this error and this appears to be a normal problem but it is beyond me to be able to convert my disk from fat32 to NTFS and some say that does not work and others that it is unwise.
I understand that Vista adds all your folders together and creates its own folder to transfer and this must not be greater than 4GB.
I have six seperate folders to move ie Documents 150mb, pictures 0.98GB
others are 1.34mb, 5.2mb and 33.6mb not sure what this adds up to.
Have I once again purchased a useless item to go with all the others?
It would appear that I need to delete everything on the external disk and create new folders each time. This is because when I tried to update tonight I just got copy files. I may as well have stayed with my selection of flash pens.
I have googled this error and this appears to be a normal problem but it is beyond me to be able to convert my disk from fat32 to NTFS and some say that does not work and others that it is unwise.
I understand that Vista adds all your folders together and creates its own folder to transfer and this must not be greater than 4GB.
I have six seperate folders to move ie Documents 150mb, pictures 0.98GB
others are 1.34mb, 5.2mb and 33.6mb not sure what this adds up to.
Have I once again purchased a useless item to go with all the others?
It would appear that I need to delete everything on the external disk and create new folders each time. This is because when I tried to update tonight I just got copy files. I may as well have stayed with my selection of flash pens.
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