External Hdd Tends To Freeze My Pc And Will Not Defrag, External HDD will not defrag

[Tony L]

Sorry not got back to you guys, my PC has been down.

I do appreciate all the help that you are giving me, and backlash your right i should leave comments if the problem has been fixed.
At the moment the problem has not been fixed, I'm trying all the ideas you have been giving me as soon as it is fixed i promise to let you know so that the thread can be closed. Once again guys please do not think i don't appreciate your help that is far from the truth.
Thanks
Tony.

[Virtualbody1234]

Is this what you meant by "no-brainer"?

Based on his last post... Yes!

[Tony L]

I've istalled and ran diskeeper, it analyze my internal hdd, but when i try to analyze my external hdd i get this error message:
Diskeeper has detected that CHKDSK is scheduled to run on the volume: HD-HBU2(F) This is due to either a user request, or because the operation system has found errors in the file system. CHKDSK will run automatically during the next system reboot. until chkdsk is run, diskeeper cannot analyze this volume.
I've rebooted my pc but still wont analyze so is it possible i've got a big problem with my exteral hdd.
The HD-HBU2(F) is my external hdd.
Thanks

[lynx]

I'm not sure at what point the system loads the drivers for external usb drives. If it hasn't done it at the point chkdsk would be run then it will never clean up your drive. Since it isn't a system drive you should be able to run this at any time.

Run the following command (from start/run... or a command prompt).

Chkdsk X: /F

Substitute the drive letter of your external drive for the X.

[Tony L]

ok lynx thanks ill try that, get back to you thanks.

[ilw]

I had similar problems ages ago and tried various things but still lost 250GB of data at one stage. External hdds just don't seem to work right with my setup (XP on a 2600 AMD on an Asus A7N8X deluxe). Not sure if it was my motherboard (there seemed to be some usb-hdd issues) or whether i should have gone for FAT32 on the drive (which i believe is less easily corrupted than NTFS), but i just gave up on external drives after my second mass data loss/recovery session.

[Tony L]

Still no joy with fixing the problem. Someone ask me what is my spec on my pc, i dont know what or how to find that. But not sure why they ask that unless it is something to do with hdd.

[clocker]

Still no joy with fixing the problem. Someone ask me what is my spec on my pc, i dont know what or how to find that. But not sure why they ask that unless it is something to do with hdd.

That "somebody" is VB1234 and he always asks for those specs- probably because he's Canadian, eh?
Or maybe just to make sure you're not plugging into an Eazy-Bake Oven or something equally outre.

[Virtualbody1234]

Still no joy with fixing the problem. Someone ask me what is my spec on my pc, i dont know what or how to find that. But not sure why they ask that unless it is something to do with hdd.

That "somebody" is VB1234 and he always asks for those specs- probably because he's Canadian, eh?
Or maybe just to make sure you're not plugging into an Eazy-Bake Oven or something equally outre.

But I didn't even ask about the PC specs... Yet.

[clocker]

Could you post details about this external drive?

Is it a prebuilt unit?
Make/Model?

Is it an enclosure with a drive installed?
Enclosure - make/model?
Drive - make/model?
Interface type?
Power supply?

Does it have several partitions? How many? What type?
Is it formatted NTFS or FAT32?

But I didn't even ask about the PC specs... Yet.

Yeah, but we all know the first question was just foreplay...you'll get to the juicy bits soon enough.