Hmmm yeah well....

[lapta]

Started a defrag on me PC last night, using a 3rd party defrager not the windows defrager, about 10 minutes in to it it asked me to reboot so it could reboot in dos mode.

I clicked yeah, let it do wat ever it was doing, came back to me pc 4 hours later, said it had finished. So rebooted my PC, and all the data had been wiped!!!!

So i have installed windows on to a extrenal harddrive for now so i could get online.

I am trying to recovery the data now.

I have no access to emails or the servers at the moment.

Will install msn shortly.

/lapta

[Sable]

y use a 3rd party defragger?? lol

[Adamantine.]

y use a 3rd party defragger?? lol

better than the windows one?

good luck sorting that lapta, its not fun

[lapta]

using diskinternals partition recovery software. Its found **** loads of data, but the scan is only 15% so far, so it should recover it all.

Only thing i care about is me emails, the rest of its backed up.

Use a 3rd party defrager as i use a RAID setup, and windows defragger dose a really bad job.

[Sable]

tbh use system mechanic. it defrags, removes any uneeded data, deletes uneeded registery keys, repairs any broken links etc, and optimizes your system.

[Orphan]

Just use the Windows defragger lol. There might be better disk defraggers out there but on a home PC you wouldn't notice any difference.

Special defragging is only neccessary on Terminal servers or servers that are writing large ammounts of data all the time.

[Warrior]

Did you run Disk Defragmenter while you are in safe mode?