HDD problems make me..............
There never seems to be a cure. One is always fighting to keep things going once problems occur. I did have to reformat and fresh install on drive C: ........ Believe it or not I accidentally deleted the patition.....
This did solve all the problems that I was having at the time so yea it did work but it was not my plain to do so.
My HDD has 3 partitions, C: = 10 gig and has O.S. on it, D: = 10 gig and is not in use at this time but I plain to put another O.S. there, E: = 55 gig and is used for file storage. This set up works just like BB pointed out. Defraging any one section is faster than doing the whole HDD. I have also found that almost 90% of fragmentation occurs on my C: partition with he O.S. on it. I defrag the E: partition about once to ever 10 defrags of C: ....
Also when I had to fresh install XP the only thing I had to do is tweak the O.S. and re-setup my programs via all the information from the E: partition. I have the 80% of my reg tweaks in a folder on E: so that made it quicker to recover as well....
Just some of the things that I have done with my system.
Good luck and I hope you find an easy cure........
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