The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on. After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?

Is the space a lot of space? How are you determining it's there, but not
available? Have you used Command Prompt to run the dir /a command for the
folder or drive the data is on?

"Hortnon" wrote in message
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The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on.
After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry
for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?

It's a 60GB folder, and the only other folder on the drive is 1GB right now.

dir /a shows nothing.

"dean-dean" wrote:

Is the space a lot of space? How are you determining it's there, but not
available? Have you used Command Prompt to run the dir /a command for the
folder or drive the data is on?

"Hortnon" wrote in message
...
The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on.
After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry
for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?

I lied. I misunderstood the usage of dir /a. After putting :h on the end, I
found some files that Explorer couldn't access, but the command line could.
Windows apparently renamed the parent folder and marked it extra super-secret
hidden.

Thanks!

"dean-dean" wrote:

Is the space a lot of space? How are you determining it's there, but not
available? Have you used Command Prompt to run the dir /a command for the
folder or drive the data is on?

"Hortnon" wrote in message
...
The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on.
After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry
for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?

I'm glad you found it. Were you able to unhide the parent folder? If it's
a folder with hidden system attributes, or you're not sure and you just want
a normal folder, you can use the attrib command to change that, for example:

attrib -S -H -R C:\MyFolders\MySuperHiddenFolder

Press Enter.


"Hortnon" wrote in message
...
I lied. I misunderstood the usage of dir /a. After putting :h on the end, I
found some files that Explorer couldn't access, but the command line
could.
Windows apparently renamed the parent folder and marked it extra
super-secret
hidden.

Thanks!

"dean-dean" wrote:

Is the space a lot of space? How are you determining it's there, but not
available? Have you used Command Prompt to run the dir /a command for
the
folder or drive the data is on?

"Hortnon" wrote in message
...
The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on.
After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry
for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till
being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data
as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?