Re: data missing from copy

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2014-01-12 at 07:28:54

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Allen <profox@gatwicksoftware.com> wrote:

>

> On the laptop (windows 8) there is a table, probably over 10gb,

Is this a typo? Ten Gigabytes?

> Copy to an external hard drive and the copy has blank records.

> Quite a lot of them.

> Do the same with USB stick and its fine.

>

Check the formatting of the two devices and see if they are different If

the drive is FAT32 it may be limited to 4 Gb. NTFS is much larger.

If this isn't the case, I'd suspect the drive has defects. Test it

(CHKDISK, SMART, etc.) or replace it.

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Ted Roche

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