HD-CELU2 500GIG

[philcurtis]

   

Hi All!

I have a 500 gig HD-CELU2 Drivestation which has worked fine up until now. I have only used about 40 gigs, (that's all I have ever used). Now I want to add some more data I am told that my drive is full!! Please can anybody help me? I am running windows 7 and XP via 2 computers. I have no problem linking to the station on my network. The CD that I have for the Drivestation says ver 1.1.0 on it.

I have searched these forums. Is it that it is a fat 32 system which has a limitation of 4 gigs...so a re- format to NTFS would help?? If this is the answer how do I do this? If i re- format will I not loose all my settings so that I can connect via my network?? How would I restore the drive so it all worked again?

Windows XP sometimes does a scan at startup, (if the drive is plugged in via USB). It says that the volume is 'dirty' scans the drive but it still has the same problem after this.

Thanking you in anticipation,

Phil

[Kameran]

yes you will lose the nas functionality when formatting to ntfs.  It's a limitation of the device because of the file system it must use for this functionality as both as not being able to take files over 4 gigs.

 

Sorry but there is no solution besides getting a dedicated nas device.

[philcurtis]

   

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Are you saying that my drive is basically useless? Have I wasted my money on a drive not fit for purpose??