[steve888]

Hi guys,

I have a folder which had a number of videos in it but when i click on it now it's empty and i never deleted a thing. When i right click to see the folder size it's 0 bytes. I tried inputting a couple of other videos within the folder but they all seem to disappear once i put them in there, the size of the folder does not change from 0 bytes either. It's almost as though it's changed into a recycling bin. I have rarely used this folder recently, the first time i viewed it was a few days ago and everything was fine. I had tons of old videos in there which would take me an age to get back.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Or how i could get back my videos?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have windows xp.

Edited by steve888, 28 October 2009 - 08:53 PM.

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[steve888]

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[steve888]

Thx for that, no it's not only videos, i tried adding jpg's just now and they also just miraculously disappear when i drag and drop in.

Someone recommended i should run a CHKDSK, would that work? and how do i do it?

[steve888]

Thanks mate , ill give that a try.

[steve888]

Will do.

[steve888]

About to run chkdsk. I guess i should have asked this earlier but Once chkdsk is completed will it ask me anything? I'm a bit of an amateur at this so dont really wanna answer any questions wrongly once its done and mess it all up. Or does it just fix all errors automatically?

Thx

Edited by steve888, 29 October 2009 - 02:55 PM.

[rshaffer61]

It will attempt to fix them automatically.
It will not ask you to do anything.
It is important to let us know if it finds any errors and corrects them along with any it may not be able to fix.
If it does find errors then you will need to rerun it till it does not find anymore errors.

[steve888]

Hi guys,

Sorry for the delay, my brother ran the chkdsk today when he came to visit and it thankfully cured the problem. I wasn't here when he done it so i never got the error report. If someone can tell me how to find the error report (it must still be on my comp right?) i'll post it up in here.

Thx again for all the help guys.

[rshaffer61]

Start and then click on Run
Type in eventvwr.msc and press Enter
on left side click on Application

In column "Source" on the right half of the window, look for "Winlogon".
On the same row, "Event" matching 1001 is the que pasa on chkdsk.

Copy and paste the information or take a screenshot of it and attach to your next reply.

[steve888]

Start and then click on Run
Type in eventvwr.msc and press Enter
on left side click on Application

In column "Source" on the right half of the window, look for "Winlogon".
On the same row, "Event" matching 1001 is the que pasa on chkdsk.

Copy and paste the information or take a screenshot of it and attach to your next reply.

Not there mate, i clicked on "source" so that it'll arrange them all alphabetically and the only 'winlogon's' which are there are during September and October, none in November.

He'll be back most probs tomorrow, ill tell him to write a detailed message when he gets here.

[rshaffer61]

OK thank you for the update.
I just want to make sure that everything is working now since the chkdsk was done.
Any problems crop up in the last 7 hours or so?

[steve888]

OK thank you for the update.
I just want to make sure that everything is working now since the chkdsk was done.
Any problems crop up in the last 7 hours or so?

Nope mate, none that i know of anyways, everything seems to be working just fine.

Thx again.