cancelling defrag ruined hard drive??

[jamie2011]

hi all.

 

is it possble to physically damage a harddrive simply by clicking the 'cancel' button while it is defragmenting?

 

ill go through the whole story.

 

must have been a couple of years ago now. i started running the defrag on my laptop. and for some reason that i cant remember, i needed to stop it after a few miinute, so i hit the cancel button. ever since then, whenever i tried to go into the 'my pictures' the whole laptop just freezes. i didnt have much in there, so i just avoided that folder and stored my pics elsewhere and everything was fine

 

but now, after a couple of years, and with my laptop clogged up with all kinds of junk, i decided to reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows using the recovery partition on the harddrive, it seems to freeze up whilst wiping the harddrive, im guessing its when its trying to wipe the 'my pictures' folder. ive tried reinstalling windows from the recovery DVDs that i burnt off when i got the laptop as well but the same thing happens. so now im stuck with a laptop that doesnt have windows onhttp://www.pchelpforum.com/images/smilies/frantic3ie6vv.gif

 

is my hard drive completely ruined?

 

thanks

[KenB]

Hi

 

is my hard drive completely ruined?

One way to find out is to attach it to another machine and run a checkdisk on it.

 

You will need a hard drive to USB enclosure or adapter.

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I have one of these and for the price you cannot go wrong.

 

This is a 2.5 inch SATA to USB enclosure ( caddy ). If you know that your hard drive is SATA this will do the job. There is an IDE drive ( older ) that is different.

There are 3.5 inch drives but these are desktop hard drives.

 

take a look here:

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Let me know if you wish to go down this route.