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chinaplate

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Posted August 14, 2012 at 8:24PM

i have a iomega select portable hard drive usb 2.0 with what should be 500 gb...properties state 66.3 gb available !somethings gone amiss,any advice as to what ? thanks

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Terry Brown

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Posted August 20, 2012 at 10:06AM

wee eddie

Sorry I disagree.

If you have a large xternal drive, it can have the same problems as an Internal drive.

I have a 500gb external (USB) drive and have partitioned it to hold videos (300gb), Documents (40gb) and the balance for original program storage (for rebuilding machine as and when.)

By only having One partition you risk losing everyting if you have a problem.

Terry

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wee eddie

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Posted August 23, 2012 at 10:04PM

Terry: If you have a Disk Problem, you loose everything, partitions or no.

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wee eddie

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Posted August 23, 2012 at 10:05PM

Why not just have a Folder for Videos and a Folder for Documents?

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