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Drag & Drop in XP

Started by John Rickert , Nov 12 2005 01:15 PM

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John Rickert
Posted 12 November 2005 - 01:15 PM

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About two months ago I was dragging and dropping files from one hard drive folder to an another. When I went to file in the new folder, the file was not accessable for reading, using or even name changing. Is this a virus I can do something about or....

Thanks. John
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Posted 18 November 2005 - 10:01 AM

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were they on the same drive or different drives?

Try running a chkdsk /r

start > run
cmd
<enter>

chkdsk /r

say yes, reboot
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