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Thanks. Fountain of useful intel.

Thanks. I take it that these other alternatives are not supported by Windows?

Thanks. I have tried alternative USB cables with same result. Still in warranty so back it goes. Will take me about a day to strip off the data already stored on it but hey, it's a Sunday.

That explains it. Thank you. Does this mean that if I change to Linux for my next machine I am going to be limited to 4Gb file sizes, or is there some proprietory format specific to Linux, like NTFS is to Windows, which goes larger?

Hi all I have a WD "Elements" terrabyte USB drive. It seems to work fine for the first half hour or so of operation in any session, but then my laptop "re-detects" it as new hardware in the USB slot. Indeed from this point on although it detects new hardware it does not identify it as the...

Patience please - not a techie here. I have two external USB drives by WD. One called a "MyBook", 250Gb, pre-formatted as FAT32. One an "Elements" terrabyte drive, also pre-formatted as FAT32. Both have loads of free space, as does my laptop (XP Pro, hard disk formatted as NTFS). I try to...