I run Win2k, the latest Service Pack, and tried to defrag my drive D:,
which is used for temporary backup. For a few minutes things seemed to
progress, then nothing. My drive light stayed on constant, no flickering.
After 30 minutes I clicked Stop, and it seemed to. However, the drive light
remained constant. I decided to restart the system and it asked me if I
wanted to shut down defrg now (I don't know the spelling it gave me). I
clicked yes, but it never shut down. I had to hit the Reset button.

Things seem back to normal but I must do something with that drive. It's a
Seagate ST 360015A. Any suggestions?

Len Miller
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so all your files are gone?
there are some programs to recover deleted data. search google for
"recovery", "file recovery freeware"

No, files are not gone. This is simply a utility, convenience disk. All is
preserved on my USB disks.

I'd just like to know a strategy to do whatever repair that software can do.
Low level format, regular format, whatever ...???

Len
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"Johannes Schmitz" <jsemail@gmx.de> wrote in message
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"Fatfreek" <miller3lr@oecc3wildblue3.com> wrote:

|>I run Win2k, the latest Service Pack, and tried to defrag my drive D:,
|>which is used for temporary backup. For a few minutes things seemed to
|>progress, then nothing. My drive light stayed on constant, no flickering.
|>After 30 minutes I clicked Stop, and it seemed to. However, the drive light
|>remained constant. I decided to restart the system and it asked me if I
|>wanted to shut down defrg now (I don't know the spelling it gave me). I
|>clicked yes, but it never shut down. I had to hit the Reset button.
|>
|>Things seem back to normal but I must do something with that drive. It's a
|>Seagate ST 360015A. Any suggestions?


Give O&O defrag a try http://www.majorgeeks.com/download809.html It's
the best I've found. Other defrag programs took waaaay to long or
didn't do a good enough job.

Also in a dos/command window at the root of your D: drive type in:
ATTRIB -H -R *.* /S
This removes the read only bit from all the files, (a Defrag program
won't move a read only file) - The H removes the hidden bit cause you
can't remove the read only bit if it's hidden...
It's what I do, system drives as well as storage partitions.


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Go to seagate.com and download some utility to check if your harddrive is
defect

I just did that, thanks to your suggestion. SeaTools it was and I did the
complete diagnostic.

Not one problem spotted.

Len

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Thanks for those tips. I'm off to fight the next battle.
Len

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"Fatfreek" <miller3lr@oecc3wildblue3.com> wrote:

|>Thanks for those tips. I'm off to fight the next battle.

I saw you were after something else, so I cancel that message; you
weren't suppose to read it


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