[Mobile Hard Drive File Corruption: Help!]

Fixed with only a few lost files.

Thanks for the advice starla.

[Mobile Hard Drive File Corruption: Help!]

Thanks for the advice. Do you know if chkdsk can be run only on a certain folder in the drive, or must it do the entire drive at once? It's only the one folder that is corrupted. All other fies can be accessed fine.

[Mobile Hard Drive File Corruption: Help!]

Hi OCR,

I feel bad being such a newb and still asking for help here, but I'm not sure what to do about this.

I have a 500GB Maxtor USB HDD which I use to back up my files, store media etc. After transferring a large (8Gig) group of files, the folder I pasted the files into is now inaccessible and gives the following message:

I'm pretty sure this is a read/write error with the HDD. I scanned the folder with antivirus software just to make sure it wasn't a virus or anything, and the scanning program even showed all the file names, so I know they're still intact. It's just not recognizing them, or getting caught on a bad file.

A similar thing happened a while ago with the drive. A file called "C:/$Mft" file caused a read write error where the entire drive was supposedly corrupted (apparently this is a fairly common problem). However, this problem seemed to fix itself when I hooked the HDD up to my brother's PC. This isn't working with the current problem though.

I've read that the chkdsk tool can be used to fix the problem, but I'm worried about it deleting or damaging data on the drive. The corrupted folder has about 150Gig of data on it, and I don't want to lose it.

Is there anyone who has fixed a similar problem on their computer, or has used the chkdsk tool to fix a HDD before?

-Thanks

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