Missing Files - Vista Ultimate 64bit

[Guest]

The only thing I did was to change the name of my drive "E" to show the
letter E in properties\General. since then I have not been able to find a
folder that I had on the drive containing 2.45GB of data.The properties for
the drive read 232 GB capacity with 230 GB free space and 2,45 GB used space.
Clicking on drive E shows "This folder is empty".
I tried a number of things including using testdisk-6.7.win which confirms
the info is on the disk. Any ideas that might help me to make the data
visible again.

 

[Guest]

That's a strange problem..
Check if these files are hidden by turning on the option to show hidden and
system files in the Folder Options.

Also check if you have security rights to see these files.

 

[AJR]

Curious regarding "...Clicking on drive E shows "This folder is
empty"...." - or do you mean when clicking the folder ,,,?

 

[Guest]

If the files are hidden it still says the folder is empty.

On second thought, the problem could also be an error in the file system.
Lionelad, try running checkdisk on that drive, i've seen other problems like
this one that I fixed with checkdisk.

 

[Guest]

I mean opening Computer and then E

Curious regarding "...Clicking on drive E shows "This folder is
empty"...." - or do you mean when clicking the folder ,,,?

 

[Guest]

Show hidden and system files is turned on and I have security rights to see
these files.

 

[Guest]

I ran checkdisk and there were no problems found. During checkdisk 10416
files were processed. I have been working with windows for many years and
never had a problem that stumped me as much as this. My major problem is that
most of my software which was purchased online is on that disk. I was able to
copy some images and documents to C: using Testdisk-6.7-win but was am unable
to open the exe files.

 

[Guest]

I ran checkdisk and there were no problems found. During checkdisk 10416
files were processed. I have been working with windows for many years and
never had a problem that stumped me as much as this. My major problem is that
most of my software which was purchased online is on that disk. I was able to
copy some images and documents to C: using Testdisk-6.7-win but was am unable
to open the exe files