- Defrag Gone Wrong
- Posted by Zetor on April 18th, 2008
After analysing my external hard drive (160 GB, FAT32) Disk Defragmenter told
me it needed defragmenting which I proceeded to do, after some time it just
stuck and i had to close it down, now although I can see all the files on the
hard drive I cannot access them (I get a message saying it cannot find them)
I wonder what I should now to to try and recover them? any help much
appreciated.
- Posted by Twayne on April 18th, 2008
Need details; HOW did you stop defrag? How are you trying to access
them? Etc.
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- Posted by Zetor on April 21st, 2008
"Twayne" wrote:
I think I have worked out the odd behaviour since the Defrag went wrong, it
would seem the drive was somehow clashing with another hard drive connected
via USB, when this was removed I could access the files once again, this took
some working out as I was trying to copy the files to the other hard drive
that was causing the problem, I now think the defrag went wrong because both
drives were connected and had some conflict between them.
- Posted by Philip Andrews on May 29th, 2008
Use System Restore to return to a last known good point, and try again. This
move is undoable (or so MS claim).
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