I have just installed a 4TB My Book Live Duo and setup as RAID 1. I have only a few photographs on the drive and have mapped to Z:. The Z drive Properties show 4.21GB of Used Space and 1.80TB of Free Space, which seems okay
However, when I access the drive via _ wd2go _ it shows on my Computer as Public(etc…) but Properties show it as having 335GB of Used Space and 585GB of Free Space.
Can anyone tell me if this difference is correct and what has happened to the 330.79GB?
I have a similar sort of problem, whereby when I map a drive from my WD 2TB live using W2Go, it shows that the size of the mapped drive is just 25Gb, and that the file system is FAT.
I am running Vista. I was hoping that my personal cloud woudn’t be capped and that I could copy the contents of a folder on my other WD live which is at home to another one at another location. But, this capping won’t allow me to do this.
What I read in the thread was mostly people arguing about Apple and Microsoft, and I lost interest.
If it is a case of MS not reporting the free space correctly, then that has made my remote NAS useless as I can only get 25Gb on the share as Vista refuses to acknowledge the remaining space so it thinks I only have 25Gb.
It gives the usual “you do not have enough space” type of message. I did try that by having too explorer windows open. One from one drive and the other from the one I want to copy to.
Aha! I have looked at my C drive and it is 25Gb. So, it seems that the web portal is matching the disk size of my C drive to my mapped drive of my remote My Book Live.
Oh well. I’ll have to think of something else now. I reckon if I ftp to the share on the remote device that will allow me to move my client data off site.
Many thanks for bearing with me and working out what was the problem.