Guest miner Posted August 17, 2008 Posted August 17, 2008 I am using Windows XP with SP3 and all recent updates. Also AVG antiviral program and have 4 partitions on my hard drive with one used exclusively for programs. Recently I noticed that almost all my folders were empty in one partition and encountered only one empty folder in an another partition. Otherwise the computer is running well without any problems. Using Acronis I reverted to a backup I had done on Feb 20th wondering whether some recent update or SP3 had caused this problem, but the folders are still empty. Is there any way to remedy this situation or recover the information and does this indicate a hard drive problem? Corrupted software? How can an a person run chkdsk on a partition? Hoping to solve this dilemma. Miner
Guest ju.c Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: Empty Folders > "Recently I noticed that almost all my folders were empty..." Depends on what the folders were. (Literally all?) List a few examples. >"How can an a person run chkdsk on a partition?" In "Explorer" right click on a drive letter and select "Properties". Open the "Tools" tab and click the "Check Now..." button. Check the first box only, the second one will take a very long time. ju.c "miner" <joh_hunter@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:aK1qk.14765$hx.2410@pd7urf3no... > I am using Windows XP with SP3 and all recent updates. Also AVG antiviral program and > have 4 partitions on my hard drive with one used exclusively for programs. > > Recently I noticed that almost all my folders were empty in one partition and > encountered only one empty folder in an another partition. Otherwise the computer is > running well without any problems. Using Acronis I reverted to a backup I had done on > Feb 20th wondering whether some recent update or SP3 had caused this problem, but the > folders are still empty. > > Is there any way to remedy this situation or recover the information and does this > indicate a hard drive problem? Corrupted software? How can an a person run chkdsk on a > partition? > > Hoping to solve this dilemma. > Miner >
Guest miner Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: Empty Folders Among the many folders, I had overlooked the fact that a new folder *New Volume-1* had been created in the same partition F with a copy of the entire contents and folders of F where the information was intact. This left many empty folders behind. There was a variety of files which went "missing", many of them graphic files like TIFF, GIF, JPEG and movies but there were a lot of Word and Access database files. Any ideas as to the cause. Would an update have done this? AVG, Ad-Aware and Spybot did not find any malware. Like other things, this perhaps cannot be explained. "ju.c" <bibidybubidyboop@mailnator.com> wrote in message news:Oj6l1pPAJHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> "Recently I noticed that almost all my folders were empty..." > Depends on what the folders were. (Literally all?) List a few examples. > >>"How can an a person run chkdsk on a partition?" > In "Explorer" right click on a drive letter and select "Properties". Open > the "Tools" tab and click the "Check Now..." button. > Check the first box only, the second one will take a very long time. > > > ju.c > > > "miner" <joh_hunter@shaw.ca> wrote in message > news:aK1qk.14765$hx.2410@pd7urf3no... >> I am using Windows XP with SP3 and all recent updates. Also AVG antiviral >> program and have 4 partitions on my hard drive with one used exclusively >> for programs. >> >> Recently I noticed that almost all my folders were empty in one partition >> and encountered only one empty folder in an another partition. Otherwise >> the computer is running well without any problems. Using Acronis I >> reverted to a backup I had done on Feb 20th wondering whether some recent >> update or SP3 had caused this problem, but the folders are still empty. >> >> Is there any way to remedy this situation or recover the information and >> does this indicate a hard drive problem? Corrupted software? How can an a >> person run chkdsk on a partition? >> >> Hoping to solve this dilemma. >> Miner >>
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