doronmw

Good call! I was able to find a utility that is part of the software that runs thle hard disk that allowed me to scan the disk and it said that it some kind of repair as well. It gives absolutly no details about what it found and what it repaired and I have no way of evaluating how good or not this is. But that's all i have for now. Thanks!

If there is an internal firewall then i don't know about it. I would imagine not, because i am able to see it from Explorer. And yes, there is plenty of room left on that hard drive (9+ G). One thing that i tried and didn't work (and maybe this is a clue to the whole thing) is right clicking on that hard drive and then chosing to defrag it from the menue the pops up. The problem is that there is no such option for this drive, whereas it does exist for the drives that are in my laptop. I don't know why. Also, i tried running a defrag from the cmd prompt but again it wouldn't do it.

Sorry for the confusion. The external hard drive is connected to my network via a router, no USB. I'm not sure what a NAS is.

No, unfortunately it didn't work.

Hi, I'm running an XP laptop and have an extenal hard drive that is connected to my network so that my wife and i can backup our files. I wanted to use defraggler on that drive but the program won't see it. I tried installing the program on that external harddrive but it still won't see it. In both cases it only sees the harddrive that I have in my laptop. Any suggestion on how I can use defraggler on this network drive? To make a clarification, the problem with that drive is that it has some bad sectors, so if there is another solution that you can suggest I'll take that as well. Thanks,