Last night, I started a defrag of my storage drive in O&O defrag pro. It's an 80GB maxtor, NTFS.
I haven't done one in months - naughty, I know. It was really a mess, something like 70% fragged. I burned/deleted about 25GB of stuff off right before I started the defrag.
When I woke up, I was greeted with a number of windows system error bubbles and a frozen machine. All errors started with "Cannot move file G:\$whatever", where whatever was various names. I assume they were system files of some sort.
When I tried rebooting, windows froze on the loading screen. I tried starting in safe mode, and I saw the driver it froze on but forgot to write it down. I then disconnected the drive internally, and windows started fine.
This has never happened to me before, and I've been using O&O for at least a couple of years. Any thoughts on what went wrong? Any ideas on how to fix it, especially since I can't boot windows with the drive plugged in? There are some pretty important things on that drive.
I haven't done one in months - naughty, I know. It was really a mess, something like 70% fragged. I burned/deleted about 25GB of stuff off right before I started the defrag.
When I woke up, I was greeted with a number of windows system error bubbles and a frozen machine. All errors started with "Cannot move file G:\$whatever", where whatever was various names. I assume they were system files of some sort.
When I tried rebooting, windows froze on the loading screen. I tried starting in safe mode, and I saw the driver it froze on but forgot to write it down. I then disconnected the drive internally, and windows started fine.
This has never happened to me before, and I've been using O&O for at least a couple of years. Any thoughts on what went wrong? Any ideas on how to fix it, especially since I can't boot windows with the drive plugged in? There are some pretty important things on that drive.