Tech tinkering weekend

Spent some time defragging the computer, doing a disk cleanup, backing up digital video files onto dvd, trying to solve downloading from digital video camera to computer via usb problems ie the micro hard drive often wasn't recognised in explorer, also having problems with reading files on the external hard drive. Sometimes, you don't know what piece of software or hardware is causing problems and then you're off searching Google in the hope that some forum post will give you the answer. Fun, fun, fun not.