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Ted Kenyon Posted on Oct 31, 2007
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Freecom Hard drive

I have a Freecom 400GB external HD to use as a backup to my PC drive C.

My PC drive has used around 27Gb of its 40Gb capacity, yet when I run a backup to the 400Gb drive it only shows about 6Gb in total space has been used. All my files and folders seem to backed up OK, and indeed I can open them from the 400Gb drive with no problem, but I cant see the Windows files as shown when drive C is opened. So how can 27Gb be backed up into a space of 6Gb. I dont understand.
I use XP Pro SP2 and all updates.

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  • Ted Kenyon Nov 02, 2007

    Thank you for that, I thought the files may be compressed but I never knew the could be compresed as much as that. Problem solved, thanks again.

  • Ted Kenyon Nov 02, 2007

    Thank you for that, I thought the files may have been compressed but never by as much as they are. Problem solved, thanks again.

  • rickkym Mar 02, 2008

    had a freecom with a weston digital wd250bb 250 gb hard drive in and it lost signal into my mac and my xp and my windows vista ! i was advised to put it in a new caddy < mobile landisk > and have the same problem ! any ideas

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Ive just brought a seagate freeagent 1tb and want to use it to back on files from ps3 but it needs to be a fat32 but i only have the option of exFAT and NTFS, hope someone can help thanks Justin

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I have a 500 GB external HDD from freecom, wich was working fine in the beginning.
It was fat32 pre-formatted when i bought it, so i formatted it to NTFS becouse i want to put big files on it. When I connect it to my computer, everything goes allright. But when I start a program such as:
Azureus (torrents)
Defregmantation
Virusscan
etc.

wich are using my drive, it just *shuts down*. Well, it's not shutting down actualy. The light indicator goes off, and windows can't acces it anymore (it's still in your list of my computer though) , but the drive inside is still running. When I hit the switch to shut it off, it goes off, you can hear the drive stop spinning, then you get all kind a errors in windows with drive write errors (becouse i shut it down ofcourse). This is not happening when i connect it to a hub. i connected it to a 2.0 hub (wich is not 2.0 full speed ofcourse, but it's faster then 1.0) and then it's not *shutting down*, but it's very slow ofcourse.

Please help me out, becouse I can't do anything with it right now, unless under low speed. )-:

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Backup file in windows is being compressed the bytes from the original file. YOu don't need to worry unless everything doing good.

Please rate me solved if you like my solution.

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  • Anonymous Nov 02, 2007

    Thank you for making my solution fruitful. Till next..

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