External USB drive issue -- PCTECH

Subject: External USB drive issue
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:21:49 -0400
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All,

I have a 5TB external USB drive that I use for quarterly Windows system
image backups for a number of desktop PCs.

This quarterly go round I reached the 4th desktop and it failed saying
there wasn't enough space on the disk. I always delete the old one I am
about to replace so this seemed odd. I looked and there was only 38gb
available.

I deleted all the images from the end of June and there's still only 38gb
available. It reports this on 3 desktops, including mine.

Any idea what is wrong? Do I need to do a quick format? Is it failing?

I'm currently running a CHKDSK on it which will most likely take all day to
complete.

Thanks.

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