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.

> 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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"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.

Use System Restore to return to a last known good point, and try again. This
move is undoable (or so MS claim).

(()x

"Zetor" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.