Defrag Gone Wrong

[Guest Zetor]

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.

[Guest Twayne]

Re: Defrag Gone Wrong

 

> 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.

 

Need details; HOW did you stop defrag? How are you trying to access

them? Etc.

 

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Twayne

 

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[Guest Zetor]

Re: Defrag Gone Wrong

 

 

 

"Twayne" wrote:

> > 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.

>

> Need details; HOW did you stop defrag? How are you trying to access

> them? Etc.

>

> --

> Regards,

>

> Twayne

 

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.

[Guest Philip Andrews]

Re: Defrag Gone Wrong

 

Use System Restore to return to a last known good point, and try again. This

move is undoable (or so MS claim).

 

((:o)x

 

"Zetor" <Zetor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> 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.