Disk Defragmentation with power lost

[Disk Defrag after lost power]

I was defraging an external disk when I lost power when the power came back
on I tryed to access the data and all I have is empty directories and no
data. I can see a few files on the root directory but they will not pull up
either.

 

[cheen]

you need to check the disk for errors

go to COMPUTER, right click on the external drive icon> properties> tools>
check disk


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[Disk Defrag after lost power]

Thanks, But I checked it out the defrag was only about 1/2 way thru when I
lost power.

 

[cheen]

You lost the power and that caused the disk to "crash"

you must do a check disk if you dont see the files you had!
Again I will repeat, go to my computer, right click on the drive select
properties then do what you see in this screenshot

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7173/checken7.jpg

after the check disk is finished see if you have your files back


"Disk Defrag after lost power"

 

[Disk Defrag after lost power]

I have run it but I did it again but no errors and the disk defrag doesn't
repair it either. It shows that I have 40 gig of space and 32 gig of space
used but no files.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

cheen was right, if recovery console, and 'chkdsk /r' fail to repair the
disk, it's dead.

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[cheen]

the disk may not be dead.. it probably is FAT32 since externals have this
for compatibiliy reasons

its far more prone to problems of this nature than NTFS..

To the Original Poster , if you have a friend who has more technical
knowlage tell him to use a program to try to scan the disk for errors ,
there are many programs that try to fix problems like this,
or mount it from Linux or something.. this of course only if you have
imporant files

if all fails and you did not have anything important format the drive in
NTFS and see if it works again