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 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:32 am Post subject: Lost data cuz of defragmentation? |
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So my friend did a defragmentation on his computer.. i dont know if its the good word in english but anyway, while he was defragging, his computer crashed and he needed to reboot, when he did all programs were lost..
can this be true? and if so, how ?
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do you know what defragmentation program did he use?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| just the one that comes with windows...
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess it's possible that you might get data loss during that, but NTFS is pretty good about those things. I doubt it caused any major sort of damage that was so significant it boned "all programs".
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| All his pictures were deleted, desktop was cleared, ( only recycle bin was there ) And a game has lost.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Certainly possible. Data could have been being moved when it crashed, data is then just floating around somewhere. Same with a forced shut down.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Run chkdsk /r
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Ehm can you explain what it does please?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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start -> run -> cmd
chkdsk /r
check disk
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| i knew that.. just dont want to happen something bad cuz of me..
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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It'll check your disk for errors/bad sectors/corrupted data, no harm will come from it.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| MrRoy wrote: | | All his pictures were deleted, desktop was cleared, ( only recycle bin was there ) And a game has lost. |
that sounds like a reformat/reinstall more than a defrag
a new install just leaves the recycle bin on the desktop
if it crashed when defragging maybe the windows configuration was lost and it loaded the basic desktop
erm dont know if some recovery programs might find some lost pics after a defrag crash its pot luck
undelete and newer programs might find lost files, tho some will be unrecoverable unless and expert has a go
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