internal HD to external firewire HD question..

[jiker]

my roommate asked me a question regarding this. His boss has 2 macs: a CRT imac, and a powerbook G3 laptop, both running OS 9, with a total drive space of 60GB. His boss just recently picked up a few (3, i think) 120GB firewire hard drives, so he can back up the data on the machines. When he transfered the data however, he filled up 2 of the drives! how does 60gb stretch to 240GB?! what should he do? thanks in advance.

[zarathustra]

the only thing that comes to mind is that the FW drives were formatted differently, i.e. with a larger block sized scheme. If his was HFS+ and the drives were DOS, the block size difference might account for this. :confused:

Try reformatting the FW drives in HFS+ and then copy.

[MacsRgr8]

Or maybe the filesystems are corrupted.
Info on file size can go horribly wrong....
Have you searched for files >1 GB? Sometimes you'll find some wierd answers....