[access-uk] Re: All 55 gig of my music gone!
- From: "Donna Waring" <donna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:00:50 +0100
Thank you Darren. It's a separate drive. I'll let you know what goes on.
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Brewer" <darren.m.brewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: All 55 gig of my music gone!
Hi Donna
You say you defragmented F drive. Well that should not do it any harm so
long as the defragment process was not interrupted. But even if it was it
would not do any real harm such as reformatting the drive. It sounds to me
like one of windows quirky faults. Do you have 2 hard drives? or is a
single drive partitioned into 2. If its the latter that rules out that the
hard drive has a fault. But if it is a separate hard drive, then there may
be something wrong with it. It could also be that for some reason the boot
sector was corrupted whilst defragging which would make the hard drive
unreadable by the operating system. Hopefully it is a quirk of windows and
it will just come back after a few reboots. But from what you've said I
don't think the data has been lost. But let us know what happens.
Darren.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Waring" <donna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:39 AM
Subject: [access-uk] All 55 gig of my music gone!
Hi guys
Thankfully I have two drives on my computer which is XP Home. The
smallest one has all my university books and work, and the bigger one has
backups of these books and work, plus a load of music and audio described
videos.
The big one is the F drive, and I defragmented this yesterday. There was
no indication at all that anything was wrong, and I also downloaded some
priority updates from the Windows Update website.
I turned off the computer as normal, and in turning it on this morning, I
found that some of my shortcuts didn't work. Then it told me that my F
drive was not formatted, and when I looked in the properties, it said 0
bites when I knew there was 55 GB of stuff there.
I can't take the computer to the shop today as it closes on a Sunday, and
although I'm sad at losing all my music and videos, I'm more relieved
that thankfully I still have all my books for uni and my work, which is
aditionally backed up onto cd. However the music isn't backed up as
there is so much of it, so I will have to see what if anything the shop
can recover.
Several questions I wanted to ask:
I've run Add Aware and my anti-virus. All fine. So does anyone have any
idea what could have caused this?
Also, if the stuff has gone and the drive is reformatted by the shop,
should I ask them for NTFS or Fat32? Which is best? The drive was
originally fat32.
I just can't think at all what could have made this happen. One minute
all the stuff was there and then it was gone.
Donna
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