Magic666 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Hi all, strange problem and hopefully someone has a solution... Yesterday I analyzed a hard drive and set it to defrag. After a while I stopped it (took to long and didn't want the computer on all night )just to resume it today. But to my horror the disk appears to be unaccessible.... explorer says local disk.... wtf? Error message in defraggler: the volume does not contain a recognized file system According to defraggler the disk is also totally full, which it was not at the time of the analyze/partly defrag. Please don't tell me I need to format the drive.... Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Start, Run: chkdsk d: /r (assuming d: is the faulty drive) and reboot your computer. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic666 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Hi Richard, thanks for the answer, will try that as soon as I get home. What does the /r do? Cheers, Marcel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic666 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Well... I guess it's time to format... When trying to chkdsk I get this message: Cannot run chkdsk -'CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives' Is it possible that defraggler caused this? I used it many times without a problem, this would be a first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Well... I guess it's time to format... When trying to chkdsk I get this message: Cannot run chkdsk -'CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives' Is it possible that defraggler caused this? I used it many times without a problem, this would be a first. Is it a FAT or NTFS partition? Maybe issuing a fdisk /mbr or similar would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic666 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 It was a NTFS partition, formatted it anyway. It was not that big a deal, only just two games I lost and a couple of movies. The only strange thing is that it happened after I stopped defraggler after appr. 36% I like(d) defraggler I now just hesitate to use it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inferi0r Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Next time you can use a free tool like TestDisk to get your data from your RAW drive. Probably your data was still available. And if there are no or almost none new files on the formated drive you can also use TestDisk to get all your data back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic666 Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Installing the two games again and will let defraggler have a go after that... I'll keep you informed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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