Writing to external drive runs out of space prematurely
- by steve
I have a USB 2.0, 500 GB HDD. I am writing a bunch of data to it, that I previously recovered from the drive.
I have formatted the drive in exFAT, since the drive will be used with Windows and OSX.
At first, I tried using Windows explorer to move the files over to the drive (about 160 GiB worth) but after copying about 30% of the data (according…