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I have an external hard drive enclosure with a Western Digital 250 GB Blue Label SATA hard drive. The enclosure has a USB interface. I have tried to use it with my Buffalo Link station (Gigabyte HS- DH500GL) as an extention hard drive. After plugging it in I went into the Link Station software and formatted it to XFS. Once the drive is formatted it comes up as USB Disk 1. If I go into My Computer (Vista OS) and click on USB Disk 1, the drive opens, but it shows multiple sub folders also named USB Disk 1. If I try to delete these phantom sub folders, I am not permitted to do so. I have checked this hard drive numerous times and no problems are found. Is there some issue with this type of format that may cause this. If I let the link station utility format it to Fat32, it seems fine, but I am unable to write to the drive.

Hmmm, have you tried formatting it again?  How much space does it show as used?

I must have tried reformatting it 5 times. Same result each time. It shows 0 space used. I can add files to it and delete files as well. I cannot delete the phantom subfolders though.

My Link Station drive is also formatted XFS and I have no problem with phantom subfolders on it. This is only happening on the drive connected to the usb port of the link station. Any Ideas? Anyone!

I got this repeating folders problem on my Linkstation Live with an external disk (never had it on my Pro) and I found the answer on these forums here: http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/Linkstation-HS-DH500GL-and-usb-drive/m-p/12480;jsessionid=1A7A7F3BCF73EACDF213133D918CB757.

Summary? Go to the PCast menu on the Linkstation, pick Media Servers and disable, then reformat the disk and the repeating folders won't come back.

I've no idea what you do if you want the media server feature, but it's not something I use so this wasn't a problem for me.