Folders disappear

It's me again with a brand new problem and I have no clue what is causing this or what to do about it.

I do some graphic work and I have folders upon folders of graphics on 4 externals. I have never had any problems with this computer or any of my externals until Hewlett-Packard had me do a destructive recovery of my harddrive because of a dvd drive issue(by the way it didn't help either!!) Now there are time when I will go to open a folder of graphics (no 1 certain folder) the folders,taskbar,IE all close. The taskbar comes back up after a few seconds but the folders don't. It is not 1 certain external or folder it just happens at random.

I have noticed that I really have problems with folders that have photoshop graphic files in them also. They tend to want to close on me alot.

I have Windows XP, Media Center Edition, Version 2002 and service pack 2.

Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz 960 mb Ram


Thanks...
Karen

 

Hi Karen,

Are you openning these folders with Explorer or with a 3rd party application?

As a start, see if there are any errors being logged by the system to the Event viewer around the time this happens.

Right click on My Computer, then Manage.
On the left you will see Event Viewer. Expand that (click on the plus sign).

Then click on System. See if there are any errors being logged by the system when the problem occurs.

Right clicking on a line and then clicking on Properties will give you a window with more info concerning that line. You'll see in the top section right below the down arrow, a text graphic symbol. Clicking on that will place the error info text into your clipboard (memory). Bring up Notepad and right click and paste, that will transfer it to Notepad. You can then paste the text into your next post here.

 

Here you go Charles...

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7036
Date: 8/1/2007
Time: 7:32:08 PM
User: N/A
Computer: YOUR-4DACD0EA75
Description:
The LiveUpdate service entered the stopped state.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7035
Date: 8/1/2007
Time: 7:31:37 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: YOUR-4DACD0EA75
Description:
The LiveUpdate service was successfully sent a start control.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
There was 1 of these...


Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 8/1/2007
Time: 8:05:09 AM
User: N/A
Computer: YOUR-4DACD0EA75
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
ftsata2

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.