Music files turn to "0 bytes"

I have been having a problem with my music in iTunes. It seems that whenever my computer defragments, some songs become unplayable. The file is still in iTunes and in the itunes music folder, but it's size is 0 bytes. I don't know if it is from the defragmenting, a bad external hard drive, or iTunes. If anyone else has had this problem, please let me know what you did to fix it.

Nasty. Your best bet is to use data recovery software to extract & backup whatever files you can, then completely reformat it.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.macworld.com/article/143139/2009/10/recovererased_harddrive.html
http://download.cnet.com/Data-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10298807.html
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