External drive folder "invisible"

[Guest Churchy LaFemme]

Win XP MCE 2005 suddenly is unable to "see" the contents of my music storage

folder on a Maxtor external hard drive connected by USB, instead showing the

folder in Win Explorer and in My Computer as being empty. Once in a while it

shows the contents when I open Win Explorer, but usually not. Running

checkdisk doesn't help. Thanks.

[Guest Frank]

Re: External drive folder "invisible"

 

same here for a while now. never found and help.

if i switch over to 2nd os (vista), the folders are there

and filled with files.

 

bye

 

 

frank

 

 

 

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[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: External drive folder "invisible"

 

I don't know the answer but when the folder is empty, what does the folder

show when you right click it and select properties? I assume it shows there

are files in the folder. Are there other files on the external drive that

show up when the music files do not? When the files are there, have you

tried transferring them to a new folder?

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Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP Shell User

 

 

"Churchy LaFemme" <ChurchyLaFemme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

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> Win XP MCE 2005 suddenly is unable to "see" the contents of my music

> storage

> folder on a Maxtor external hard drive connected by USB, instead showing

> the

> folder in Win Explorer and in My Computer as being empty. Once in a while

> it

> shows the contents when I open Win Explorer, but usually not. Running

> checkdisk doesn't help. Thanks.