defragmenting external USB drive

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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!



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


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[philo]

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!

 

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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,

|\ /|
| \/ |@rk
\../
\/os

mccm dot vos at hccnet dot nl

 

[DL]

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