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saudereth
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_ 		21. August 2006 @ 09:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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?
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_ 		22. August 2006 @ 14:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So what's missing, exactly?
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saudereth
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_ 		23. August 2006 @ 19:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
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_ 		24. August 2006 @ 02:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can you try opening a DOS console and typing dir? Also, have you got "show all files" on in folder options?
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saudereth
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_ 		24. August 2006 @ 05:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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.
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