data recovery problem

[Bill]

I'm looking for a way to Scandisk (through) and then
Defrag a partially corrupted drive so that the rest of my
data recovery efforts (another 10G) won't be stupenously
slow. I've deleted what I recovered already. When I try to
launch Scandisk, I get dialog box message that Disk
Utility has blocked writing to drive (necessary for those
functions) and I can't even find or identify that program.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm looking for a way to Scandisk (through) and then
Defrag a partially corrupted drive so that the rest of my
data recovery efforts (another 10G) won't be stupenously
slow. I've deleted what I recovered already. When I try to
launch Scandisk, I get dialog box message that Disk
Utility has blocked writing to drive (necessary for those
functions) and I can't even find or identify that program.

XP does not use Scandisk. If it is an FAT 32 drive you might do it from
a Win98 startup floppy, and its Scandisk. Otherwise the program is
CHKDSK, run from a cmd.exe Command Prompt

 

[Vaughn McMillan - Executive Software]

If you suspect the drive is corrupt, I'd advise against trying to
defrag the files on it. Although the defrag APIs should prevent you
from moving files to a bad sector on the disk, it seems the defrag
operation would be flirting with disaster. I'd live with the slow data
recovery times, and get the files onto another disk ASAP.

Just my $0.02 -

Vaughn McMillan
Executive Software