unknwn prob with external HDD

[choudang]

guys, i am facing a quite unfamiliar problem with my external HDD.

i used to store my travel pics, movies and other stuffs in my WD my book. there is folder that i am not able to access, when i double click on that, it opens and automatically goes back. tried to copy said source is not found, not showing size, can't rename. but its showing the contents and pics are accessible if i access too fast.

screen shot attached.



help me to recover the snaps

[lordirecto]

What anti virus are you using? Have you tried scanning the HDD?
If you know to use MS-DOS, then you can recover using the DOS commands. Better solution will be, try to connect your HDD to a Linux/UNIX based system. Then you will be able to access all the data with out any problem. Then you can take a back up and then bring it back to your win 7 and format it.

[choudang]

problem has been solved yesterday it self. no errors thru chkdsk /f and no virus with nod32. connected with ubuntu and removed the folder. recovered the snaps also.

cause of the problem: it was a ref folder as i tried to remove it thru linux, actually it was in recycle folder and pertaining to 0x8009001 visual illustration error in vista/win 7.