Jessie wrote:
|| "Frank" wrote:
||
||| Jessie wrote:
||||| I backed up "C" to "K"--external hard disk with Ghost. Then I
||||| defragmented the drive "K" and shut down. Next morning I cannot
||||| access drive "K" due to I/O errors. Also get message "cannot read
||||| boot sector." Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Jessie.
|||
||| Don't defrag external drives with back up images on them. It has
||| something to do with the way that files are compressed and
||| decompressed
||| while defragmenting a drive. This will not happen if you choose no
||| compression
||| for your backup.
|||
||| THANK YOU, FRANK!! I guess I was the one that messed up my
||| external drive. I have now formatted it, but lost the one file I
||| needed. This was a good lesson for me for the future. Thank you for
||| posting your reply. We can always learn from our mistakes!
I was lucky because I had a backup on another drive.
I also downloaded a utility from Western Digital called
WD FAT32 formatter. I have nothing concrete to say
FAT32 is better, it just makes me feel better and the
drive can be read on any other box. Mac, Linux, whatever.
