Alright, so I have a Western Digital 120 gb external HD. Several folders on it, one a backup of my internal, the rest just other folders, music, programs, video, ect. I was trasnfering some anime off a disk onto it, when windows explorer locked up. I canceled the writing of the anime and rebooted. When I came back, all was gone except my backup folder. All my music and so on. I ran itunes and somehow my music still played, so i ran h:/music. the folder is still there, the files are still there. so i did the same for my media folder. I copied and pasted the contents of the folder onto the root of the external. As things copied over, they just disappeared. Any idea how to fix this?
Well when you open up the root folder in windows explorer, the only folder/file thing is my backups folder, whereas before there were 20 or so items on the page, such as my program files and media folders. But if I go into run I can open the folders, however I can't remember everything there, nor can i move the individual files i think are there. It'd be nice not to lose this data, If I had lost my programs and media the lost data would be around 20 gigs, now I'm looking at maybe 2 or 3 but that's data I would like to have. I've asked quite a few people and nobody seems to know. Any help would be much obliged before I give up and format it after moving what I can to my new mybook.
Can you try opening a DOS console and typing dir? Also, have you got "show all files" on in folder options?
The dir option only picked up the backups folder, and I am showing all files, I'm no seeing the drive is corrupted or unreadable bubble popping up every now and then in the corner.
