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BigBob
Sorry for the crossposts but I'm in dire need.
I am running XP pro SP1, 1gig ram,
I have a 250 gig external drive NTFS with 2 partitions one primary and one
logical. I went to defrag the drive so I could merge the 2 partitions and
the defrag program got through about 40% and just hung there. I hit pause
and then stop, then exited the program. I then tried to look at the drives
in My Computer and the second partion had been changed to unallocated space
and was showing that it was empty. Somewhere I lost 117 gig of files! I
tried to convert the unallocated space to ntfs and it wants me to format it.
I'm reluctant to do that because I don't want to lose my files.
If it the unallocated drive says 117 gb and o used space does that mean I've
lost those files?
Did defragment put my files in temp folder somewhere, or are they gone?
If I try system restore it will not complete.
I know they say when files are deleted they are still on your computer, but
where?
I never had a problem with defrag before.
I sure would appreciate it if someone could help. I've lost a lot of
irreplaceable digital pictures and mp3s somewhere.
Please help.
I am running XP pro SP1, 1gig ram,
I have a 250 gig external drive NTFS with 2 partitions one primary and one
logical. I went to defrag the drive so I could merge the 2 partitions and
the defrag program got through about 40% and just hung there. I hit pause
and then stop, then exited the program. I then tried to look at the drives
in My Computer and the second partion had been changed to unallocated space
and was showing that it was empty. Somewhere I lost 117 gig of files! I
tried to convert the unallocated space to ntfs and it wants me to format it.
I'm reluctant to do that because I don't want to lose my files.
If it the unallocated drive says 117 gb and o used space does that mean I've
lost those files?
Did defragment put my files in temp folder somewhere, or are they gone?
If I try system restore it will not complete.
I know they say when files are deleted they are still on your computer, but
where?
I never had a problem with defrag before.
I sure would appreciate it if someone could help. I've lost a lot of
irreplaceable digital pictures and mp3s somewhere.
Please help.