Did CC corrupt my drive directory?

Hi

I've had CC for some time and was using it on a regular basis without any problems. Then I bought an external hard drive (actually an internal drive in an external caddy)

At some point something corrupted the directory structure on the drive and I had to zero fill and reformat it to get it useable again losing a lot of data in the process.

All was well again for a while but then suddenly once more something corrupted the directory structure again and I had to go through the same zero fill and format process all over again.

The second time that this problem occured I had been accessing the drive doing some housekeeping, and then ran CC. It was immediately after running CC that I was suddenly unable to acces the drive.

The hardware has been checked and is fine. I'm fairly sure that half the issue here is that the particular drive and caddy combo I have just isn't playing nicely together. But, is there a possibility that it was CC that did this and if so how can I prevent this happening again?

I have been nervous about using CC again since then because it may have been involved in the problem and I now have 2 external drives to screw up. I always found it was a great utility so I'd like to get back to using it but...

What type and size of drive? What type of connection (USB, FireWire, ethernet)?

Are you using the external drive just as another drive or are you using any special applications, e.g., a back-up and recovery utility to store data to that drive?

EDIT: What OS are you using, and are you using NTFS or FAT32 on the external drive?

I use external drives all the time, and I haven't ever had this happen.

I don't see how CCleaner could be involved, but if you run it again and it does the same thing then maybe we would know for sure. :P (not that you want to risk it)

You not having CCleaner clean anything on that drive right? Is so CCleaner shouldn't even touch it.

Thanks for the replies...

What type and size of drive? What type of connection (USB, FireWire, ethernet)?

It's a Seagate Barracuda 250GB, IDE in a Safecom caddy, connected by FireWire

Are you using the external drive just as another drive or are you using any special applications, e.g., a back-up and recovery utility to store data to that drive?

It's just another drive I store my mp3s and video on but I did store an XP created backup of my PC recovery partition and a few critical data files on the smaller FAT partition.

EDIT: What OS are you using, and are you using NTFS or FAT32 on the external drive?

I use XP Home, the drive was partitioned with 1 FAT 32 (10Gb), 2 NTFS (175 + 65Gb) partitions. I was originally going to use the drive to ghost my existing hard drive so I set it up in exactly the same way. I had just got waylaid and started using it for overflow storage instead.

You not having CCleaner clean anything on that drive right? Is so CCleaner shouldn't even touch it.

It was during the cleaning of files from Recycle that I think the problem occured, I would think that's the only bit of the drive that was touched by CC right? I remember getting an error message that some of the files in Recycle were not accessible or something whilst CC was running and then after that the drive became unaccessable.

I remember getting an error message that some of the files in Recycle were not accessible or something whilst CC was running and then after that the drive became unaccessable.

Perhaps disconnecting the drive, or even rebooting may remedy the problem.

Running ChkDsk /f or ChkDsk /r on the drive may also be beneficial.

Perhaps disconnecting the drive, or even rebooting may remedy the problem.

Running ChkDsk /f or ChkDsk /r on the drive may also be beneficial.

No, it did not either time. On both occasions I had to go as far as zero filling in order to completely replace the directory structure. Even just formatting the drive was not enough to allow it to become accessible again.