Defrag Gone Wrong

[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.

 

[Twayne]

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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[Zetor]

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

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.

 

[Philip Andrews]

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

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