Problem with Archive

The drive where you have your archive : is it by chance in FAT32 format, which has a 4 GB max filesize limit ?

 

It is formatted NTFS. It will take the creation of the Archive it just won't update it.

 

Just to be sure : have you performed a chkdsk /f on both the system drive and the destination drive where the archive is.

 

I have run the system disk,but not the Archive Disk. I'm not sure how to run it on the Archive.

 

Start/Execute
Type 'cmd'

then type
'chkdsk /f /v L:' if L: is the archive disk

 

Well Merle I tried that and it still won't update the Archive.

 

I am pretty sure that it is not trying to update the Archive ,but is adding to it. It doesn't show that it is doing anything but I checked the drive and the used space had increased.

 

But that's the way archive are updated ?

 

I have used FD for years and I have never had this before.

 

Just to be sure : how do you know there is a problem ? You mentioned the space used by the archive has increased after an update. Which is the normal behaviour when the update succeeds.

Edited : sorry, I forgot about the lock part.

 

1/ Do you have imaging Software installed (Acronis, Paragon, etc.) ?
2/ Could you test your external SATA HDD with the following software :
CrystalDiskMark : http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html and confirm it doesn't freeze your system

3/ Could you defrag it with PuranDefrag 7 (free version) :
http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag-Download.html
4/ Can you move the archive to another disk/partition and try to update it there ?