Corrupted Folders on Windows XP reinstall

[Guest]

I backed up some folders with home movies (avi files) to my second partition
on my hard drive. I checked them and all was good. I then formated and
reinstalled Windows XP. When I go to check on these folders they are now
corrupt. There is other folders on that partition and they are fine. The
folders are now showing as unrecognizable files and I cannot access them.
Does anyone know how I can retreive the corrupted info.

Any help would be great.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Right click on the .avi file and select Open with then Windows Media
Player.

 

[geoffmcc]

explain. You cant open the folder or you can open folder but cannot
play avi files? Does windows media player give you the error or no?

 

[Guest]

I am sorry for not enough clarification.

I kept all the avi files in a folder. It was named Home movies. The folder
itself turned into a file. I cannot access it now so I can only assume that
the movies I had inside the folder are gone ( hope not hope there is a way to
retrieve) The only description I see of it is that it is now a file,
instead of a folder and no sign of the files I had inside it.