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Author Topic: MyDefrag4.3.1 keeps crashing  (Read 1910 times)
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« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2012, 10:27:53 am »
Thank you Jeroen for your comments!
As you saw a chkdsk did not reveal any errors. Also all the SMART readings look fine too of the drive.
I wonder if I can do more testing if it indeed might be a harddisk hardware problem or not...
I can tell you I did format the drive myself to FAT32 with some special tool as windows itself only supports formatting up to 32 GB.
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2012, 10:37:41 am »
Perhaps the tool did a mistake or has a bug.

Why do you need FAT32 for this drive? I don't see any point today, since linux supports NTFS very well even on write access. I don't know how it is with MACs but I think they can also access and write to NTFS.

So what's the reason?
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2012, 10:42:52 am »
The reason is not really relevant but I'll tell you..I use the drive on my softmodded Wii which preferably deals with FAT32.
So there is a good reason for me.
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« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2012, 10:57:15 am »
Yes unfortunately I can not find any solution to get around FAT32 for you. :/

You could try to reformat the drive under linux, take a gparted boot disk and do it with gparted, it should work well.

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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2012, 11:06:12 am »
So you're assuming the formatting tool is to blame here for the crashing of MyDefrag and reformatting as FAT32 with gparted should solve this?
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« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2012, 11:10:13 am »
Yes, I it's just an idea and you should give it a try.

I did not analyze the log file, is your disk almost full? (> 50%)?
Is the time/effort for this okay?

When it does not take much time, you should copy the files,
then reformat with GParted to FAT32, then copy them back.

Additionally: As a nice side effect, the files are then defragmented. Wink
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« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2012, 11:38:16 am »
The disk is a little less than half full. I doubt formatting with gparted will make a difference but I might try.
I'll let you know when/if i do.
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« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2012, 12:01:12 pm »
Ok.

It could also be a bug in the windows defragmentation API for FAT32, which is not maintained anymore.
At the time where the API was created for it, 15 GB drives where giant disks. Wink
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« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2012, 12:27:54 pm »
Ok thanks for all the fast support. You guys are great Tongue
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