09-03-2004, 11:12 PM
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Folder disappeared but files are still there...
I have a one year old external hard drive (Western Digital 120GB) that I store all of my cd's on in MP3. (58Gb of music)
About a week ago the folder that all of the music is in stopped being displayed. But here is the kicker, the music is still there and works with Itunes, and I can type in the second tier folder and it works. ie f:/mymusic/Peter Cetera works fine but f:/mymusic doesn't. I just want to get my info copied onto my new seagate 200gb that I just ordered off the deals page. Any ideas???? Other then trying to remember all of the folder names and copying them individually. |
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09-03-2004, 11:16 PM
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Chief of Naval Operations
  
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what happens when you go to the command prompt?
open the command prompt. f:\ cd mymusic dir do you see the folders?
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09-03-2004, 11:33 PM
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Slight ammendment...
I can see the my music folder I can open the folder but there are not any files listed. I just tried the command prompt and it says Volume in drive D has no label. Volume Serial Number is 78FF-CC75 Directory of D:\Music 08/27/2004 09:21 PM DIR File not found. (My Time and Date on this machine are correct.) Last edited by DJjeff1080 : 09-03-2004 at 11:42 PM. |
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09-03-2004, 11:49 PM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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hrm...
did you by any chance make the folders hidden? try this. open windows explorer. tools -> folder options -> view hidden files and folders make sure "show hidden files and folders" is darkened in. |
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09-03-2004, 11:57 PM
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Yea I have tried that. I have also tried accessing it through other computers directly and via the network with no luck. I have not tried removing the drive from the enclosure, but I couldn't see why that would change anything.
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09-04-2004, 12:08 AM
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Chief of Naval Operations
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have you tried plugging it into a different computer? same results?
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09-04-2004, 12:21 AM
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Same results.
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09-04-2004, 12:23 AM
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tried seeing if a linux box could see em?
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09-04-2004, 12:44 AM
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I am not that familiar with linux. I will be going to visit a friend tommorrow that is a linux guy, I will try to ask him. Thanks for all your help.
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09-04-2004, 02:11 PM
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Have you tried searching the drive for *.*. If that brings up anything, copy the files to a backup and reformat that disk.
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09-05-2004, 11:23 AM
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sounds like FAT tables are jacked. Run checkdisk/scandisk on it..
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