Hi everyone! As the title says, i accidentally dropped my external hard drive. It was only about a foot drop but it must have been hit hard enough to damage something, not to mention it was connected to my desktop and that i was in the middle of moving some files around. My desktop froze for a few minutes before responding but it was now laggy so i restarted it with the drive still connected. When it booted up, it automatically ran ChkDsk. It took less than an hour thankfully.
I checked to see what files were affected and maybe even continue copying/saving stuff when i realized that it was the drive that made it extremely laggy before restarting. I looked around to see how to fix this and one site suggested defragging. a lot of them were now fragmented (i was using Defraggler) but it could barely finish defragging from the lag. I thought i'd copy those files before formatting to a laptop with a lot of free memory but still, LAG.
Any suggestions on how at least try to get it to be faster? At least a program that can help with moving huge file sizes other than TeraCopy? I have Windows xp (but i can switch to my laptop which is windows 7) and an Iomega external hard drive.
I checked to see what files were affected and maybe even continue copying/saving stuff when i realized that it was the drive that made it extremely laggy before restarting. I looked around to see how to fix this and one site suggested defragging. a lot of them were now fragmented (i was using Defraggler) but it could barely finish defragging from the lag. I thought i'd copy those files before formatting to a laptop with a lot of free memory but still, LAG.
Any suggestions on how at least try to get it to be faster? At least a program that can help with moving huge file sizes other than TeraCopy? I have Windows xp (but i can switch to my laptop which is windows 7) and an Iomega external hard drive.
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