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Originally Posted by leon
Andrew, today i purchased a Toshiba 1tb external hard drive, it tells me in compatibility section that it will support XP and USB 3 and 2, also it is formate already for NTFS.
Having said that i presume it will be OK for hooking it up to the old XP machine and downloading all my files with the longer characters to this drive.
leon
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Leon, that sounds like what you needed. Try copying some directories with long names, and eject it properly. There should be an eject icon in the system tray. If not you'll have to shut down and then unplug. Reinsert it and check everything is there.
You might find that your virus checker or Window's indexing service locks the drive against ejecting. Then the easiest solution is reboot and unplug before Windows starts.
You might try "
USB Disk Ejector" to see if that makes things simpler.