Lost files after defragmentation

[drunkenmunky]

I've just defragmented my hard drive using Diskeeper 10 then rebooted my computer to find all the files in My Documents folder have disappeared (about 25Gb's worth of music, photos and downloads). All the subfolders are still there but everything inside has gone, they are just empty folders.

I've always used Diskeeper but never had this happen to me before. Have my files really gone?

 

[drunkenmunky]

Nope, I've tried searching for the files they have gone. Before I ran Diskeeper I did find some spyware that Bit Defender blocked. It appeared in my start up folder after downloading and running Process Explorer. The spyware was called Reg Scheduler.exe (or something like that). Not sure if that has anything to do with my files being lost. But I removed it before running Diskeeper and had no errors.
System Restore didn't recover my files so I'm trying File Scavenger now.

 

[drunkenmunky]

sounds like your hard drive MAY be on its way out..

personally i've never used diskkeeper, but i'm 99% sure the writers didn't put a "del *.mp3" filter into it!

file scavenger 3.0 -try using that, its very good at recovering things, even from broken raid arrays etc

also, make a backup next time!, they're priceless!

My hard drive is less than a year old. It's a Seagate 200Gb.
I used File Scavenger, it managed to find my missing photos but none of my mp3s.
I never back up my system but now I think I will. Thanks.

 

[drunkenmunky]

Questions

- what is size of disc
- what is OS
- did you run the "big disc" regsitry fix?

Mel P

Seagate 200Gb
Windows XP Pro SP2

What's the "big disc" registry fix? Windows XP alreadys detects bigger hard drives than 127Gb, at least mine does.