My HD got corrupted

[Kasi Viswanath]

Hi All,

 

I used the Piriform Defraggler tool on my WD Portable external hard drive (250GB) a couple of times back-to-back. The mistake I did was never checked even for a single time whether the files were accessible or not after running defraggler. Anyways, when I tried to view the contents of the hard disk, many of the folders were not accessible. The names of the folders have even been changed to some junk/weird characters. I have lost a great collection of books, educational videos in my drive now.

 

Of the 250GB, I had data around 205GB. Now, only around 60-70Gb is accessible. Is the rest lost?

 

Is it possible to recover the data.

 

Is this a known bug? The only thing different I did was to run defraggler on my drive atleast 3-4 times back-to-back. Every time, I analyze and then run defrag. Once I had used the stop button and safely removed my drive and then connected the drive to another USB slot on the same laptop. The drive letter has not changed then.

 

I am running Vista on a Core-2-duo. The external drive was in a single partition and in FAT32.

 

Please help,

 

Thanks in advance,

Kasi Viswanath

[A people person]

Hi,

 

I missed this post, but I've just had a very similar experience.

 

I'm just reformatting my hard drive (to return it to NTFS and then I'm about to try a data recovery program.

 

I'll let you know how I get on!!

 

Jim