I have been trying to defragment (a partition) on my external Maxtor USB
drive, using Norton Speeddisk 2003. When the proces reaches about 96 %, the
activity stalls. I can't stop or interrupt the program and sometimes I got a
'hard error' message. I had to hard reboot and ran disk doctor.

I never had read or write problems besides defragmenting. Defragmenting the
internal Maxtors never give problems.

1. How can I defragment the external drive partitions?
2. Is there a drive testing program that also supports external USB drives?
I don't want to risk the data integrity!



Windows 2000SP4
Norton Utilities 2003
Maxtor OneTouch USB disk (120GB) with two 60GB partitions NTFS formatted.


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"Linea Recta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have been trying to defragment (a partition) on my external Maxtor USB
> drive, using Norton Speeddisk 2003. When the proces reaches about 96 %,
the
> activity stalls. I can't stop or interrupt the program and sometimes I got
a
> 'hard error' message. I had to hard reboot and ran disk doctor.
>
> I never had read or write problems besides defragmenting. Defragmenting
the
> internal Maxtors never give problems.
>
> 1. How can I defragment the external drive partitions?
> 2. Is there a drive testing program that also supports external USB
drives?
> I don't want to risk the data integrity!
>
>


first...run chkdsk (without any switches)
on the drive...
if errors are shown...though you should be able to fix them by running
chkdsk /f
to be safe, you should backup the data first.

also a good idea to run the mfg's diagnostic on the drive...
if it finds any errors...replace the drive ASAP!

"philo" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
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>
> "Linea Recta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:439a03af$0$816$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have been trying to defragment (a partition) on my external Maxtor USB
> > drive, using Norton Speeddisk 2003. When the proces reaches about 96 %,
> the
> > activity stalls. I can't stop or interrupt the program and sometimes I
got
> a
> > 'hard error' message. I had to hard reboot and ran disk doctor.
> >
> > I never had read or write problems besides defragmenting. Defragmenting
> the
> > internal Maxtors never give problems.
> >
> > 1. How can I defragment the external drive partitions?
> > 2. Is there a drive testing program that also supports external USB
> drives?
> > I don't want to risk the data integrity!
> >
> >
>
>
> first...run chkdsk (without any switches)
> on the drive...
> if errors are shown...though you should be able to fix them by running
> chkdsk /f
> to be safe, you should backup the data first.
>
> also a good idea to run the mfg's diagnostic on the drive...
> if it finds any errors...replace the drive ASAP!



What is mfg's diagnostic? If you mean PowerMax, it does not run from within
Windows 95, 98/ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Furthermore the USB drive is not
accessible during boot from floppy because it is NTFS formatted. How am I
supposed to proceed in this situation?



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Being NTFS wont prevent PowerMax testing the HD.
There are specific Maxtor utilities for testing a Maxtor *external* drive.
Visit Maxtor site.

"Linea Recta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "philo" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
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> >
> > "Linea Recta" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:439a03af$0$816$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I have been trying to defragment (a partition) on my external Maxtor
USB
> > > drive, using Norton Speeddisk 2003. When the proces reaches about 96
%,
> > the
> > > activity stalls. I can't stop or interrupt the program and sometimes I
> got
> > a
> > > 'hard error' message. I had to hard reboot and ran disk doctor.
> > >
> > > I never had read or write problems besides defragmenting.
Defragmenting
> > the
> > > internal Maxtors never give problems.
> > >
> > > 1. How can I defragment the external drive partitions?
> > > 2. Is there a drive testing program that also supports external USB
> > drives?
> > > I don't want to risk the data integrity!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > first...run chkdsk (without any switches)
> > on the drive...
> > if errors are shown...though you should be able to fix them by running
> > chkdsk /f
> > to be safe, you should backup the data first.
> >
> > also a good idea to run the mfg's diagnostic on the drive...
> > if it finds any errors...replace the drive ASAP!
>
>
>
> What is mfg's diagnostic? If you mean PowerMax, it does not run from
within
> Windows 95, 98/ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Furthermore the USB drive is not
> accessible during boot from floppy because it is NTFS formatted. How am I
> supposed to proceed in this situation?
>
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
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> | \/ |@rk
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> \/os
>
> mccm dot vos at hccnet dot nl
>
>