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Defrag Killed My Hard Drive!
While running a disk defrag the screensaver popped up and
froze the computer. (This happened at some point while I was away from the computer asleep. I won't defrag without watching again!) The only recourse was to restart the computer. That failed to happen as Windows would not load up. I decided to start over from scratch and did and Fdisk and it kept stopping for a while at about 5% while checking disk integrity. It would restart and about the 3 time would finish the complete %100. That done I tried to Format the disk. It hung up stating something about recovering allocation sector followed by a long number. As of right now the computer is kaput until I can figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. (May have ruined the hard drive.) The knowledge base at least pointed out a way to have screen savers disabled during defrag and I've set that up on this my second computer. |
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Defrag Killed My Hard Drive!
Hi Randall,
I suspect the drive has failed. Defrag may have been enough to push it over the edge. At this point I would suggest identifying the make and model of the drive, then go to the manufactures web site and download there diagnostic software to test the drive. I am not sure how helpful this will be considering the drive can not be partitioned via Fdisk. -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Randall" wrote in message ... While running a disk defrag the screensaver popped up and froze the computer. (This happened at some point while I was away from the computer asleep. I won't defrag without watching again!) The only recourse was to restart the computer. That failed to happen as Windows would not load up. I decided to start over from scratch and did and Fdisk and it kept stopping for a while at about 5% while checking disk integrity. It would restart and about the 3 time would finish the complete %100. That done I tried to Format the disk. It hung up stating something about recovering allocation sector followed by a long number. As of right now the computer is kaput until I can figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. (May have ruined the hard drive.) The knowledge base at least pointed out a way to have screen savers disabled during defrag and I've set that up on this my second computer. |
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Defrag Killed My Hard Drive!
The light switch failed. It would not work even after
disconnecting and reconnecting wires. So you burned the house down. IOW that is what happened to disk drive. There are any number of reasons why problem exists. This is only one possible reason. Somehow during the rebooting, the disk drive was in the middle of a write. Therefore the reboot actually erased files from disk. No problem. Simple reboot from diskette or use of the SYS program could have fixed it. But instead, you decided to burn the house down- do an FDISK. But the disk was setup by a disk manufacturer program - not by the conventional method provided by Microsoft. Therefore FDISK, et al does not understand and cannot remove what was on disk. Now FDISK cannot read / write to the disk AND makes hard drive look as if it failed. A problem exists that requires a copy of that disk manufacturer's software (and it must be the correct versions number), or some third party solution is required such as Partition Magic. In the future, don't start fixing things until you have first collected basic information. You did not know why the disk was not working and just decided to perform brain surgery to cure a headache. Provided is but one reason why you are having additional problems and no solution for that problem. Is it the reason for failure? Nobody can say from the woefully incomplete facts provided. In addition to the above possible solution, (no matter what the problem is) get manufacturer's hardware diagnostics first to establish and learn some basic facts. Facts necessary before continuing to fix things. Fact are currently not available. Any real answer to your question is purely speculation due to insufficient information. BTW, how do I know this could happen? Been there. Done that. Learned as a result. Randall wrote: While running a disk defrag the screensaver popped up and froze the computer. (This happened at some point while I was away from the computer asleep. I won't defrag without watching again!) The only recourse was to restart the computer. That failed to happen as Windows would not load up. I decided to start over from scratch and did and Fdisk and it kept stopping for a while at about 5% while checking disk integrity. It would restart and about the 3 time would finish the complete %100. That done I tried to Format the disk. It hung up stating something about recovering allocation sector followed by a long number. As of right now the computer is kaput until I can figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. (May have ruined the hard drive.) The knowledge base at least pointed out a way to have screen savers disabled during defrag and I've set that up on this my second computer. |
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