slave drive - folders with large amt.'s of files messed up!

[Guest]

I just installed windows xp over ME on my PC. My PC has 2 hard drives ( a
slave drive). the slave has 2 folders with LOT'S of media files (mp3's,
mpegs, .avi's, .txt, wmv, etc.) that seem to have been compressed by XP...
new sub-folders with wierd characters as file names and new files with no
attributes have been created in these 2 folders which had all my favorite
media! AAAARG! My music! My movies! HEEELP!

 

[Ghostrider]

I just installed windows xp over ME on my PC. My PC has 2 hard drives ( a
slave drive). the slave has 2 folders with LOT'S of media files (mp3's,
mpegs, .avi's, .txt, wmv, etc.) that seem to have been compressed by XP...
new sub-folders with wierd characters as file names and new files with no
attributes have been created in these 2 folders which had all my favorite
media! AAAARG! My music! My movies! HEEELP!

What?? No backup?

 

[Guest]

A backup of some sort would have helped..However youre biggest mistake
was to have other devices installed when upgrading or doing a clean install
of xp,even printers should be temp. disconnected and reinstalled after xp is
running....

 

[Guest]

What?? No backup?

Well, I do. I have about 3/4 of these files backed up on DVD+-R disks. For
some crazy reason WIndows xp home edition with sp2 - even with that option to
arrange the HD to make progs runs faster TURNED OFF, still likes to take
folders and sub folders with large amounts of data and do a funky compression
scheme on my PC (that was designed for windows xp!).

 

[Guest]

A backup of some sort would have helped..However youre biggest mistake
was to have other devices installed when upgrading or doing a clean install
of xp,even printers should be temp. disconnected and reinstalled after xp is
running....

Well, I do have about 3/4 of the files backed up...a wierd thing is
happening however. Same files are coming back and as I move them off the
salve drive to a folder in the primary, more file I thought were lost are
coming back!