Adding files to my drive, but they don't show up.

Hi everyone,

I have two physical hard drives, both ntfs partitions. If I add files to my secondary drive, the space gets used but the files don't show up.

If I use command prompt and do a dir of the drive, it will list a lot of files but after a while of listing, it will say "File not found" and stop listing. I'm 100% sure that some aren't being listed.

If I just open it through My Computer, I don't get an error message but again, not all the files show. When I right click on the drive and go to properties, I can see the volume of the drive has decreased with respect to how big of the files I copied in there.

I didn't notice this at first but I think this started to happen after service pack 2 was installed. After the installation, it took me a while (because i have many files on the drive) to realize that some files were "missing" but the drive space hasn't increased.

What's going on?

Thanks in advance!

 

Hello taki,

Read thru this thread, similiar problem:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=33809&highlight=diskpie

Regards - Charles

 

Thanks for the link. I don't think that will fix my problem but I'll give it a try over the weekend. I'll post back in a few days.

 

It sounds very much like a partition table error. These appear to be pretty common on almost any machine I have checked, but most have no noticeable consequences.

Download this program and run it to create a boot floppy. Boot from the floppy and see what you can see.

http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/partfix.exe