While I was moving new albums within Explorer over to my external drive, everything froze, and I had to restart. Since it froze during moving my album over to my external drive, the partion table turned bad, which means.. I can't access my music any longer, 1554 albums GONE..

I did, however, get access for a while, but then when I found which files got corrupt, I didn't delete it directly - instead I sent it to the recycle bin, and I deleted it from there. Too bad. Here things really fucked up. It froze again, since it couldn't delete the corrupted files, and now I can't access the external at all (it doesn't even show up).

Any ideas how I can get the external drive up again? I heard someone talk about Norton Disc Doctor, so I'm gonna try that out. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

The drive is ntfs, and everything else on the drive works. I have to find a way to empty the recycle bin there...

Let me also just mention I've tried chkdsk, partition magic, and now that norton program.. All those freeze when I've plugged in the external. HELP!