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Folder Gone on USB Hard Drive in Windows XP

Asked by rebies in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: usb, drive, chkdsk, hard, gone

I have a USB hard drive I use for most of my personal files.  It is set up as drive "F:\" in Windows XP.   Most everything is accessible and working on this drive, but one folder is giving me problems.  This folder is named "F:\OtherStuff\MyDocs\".  For some reason when I browse to this directory I get the error: "F:\OtherStuff on 192.168.1.99\MyDocs is not accessible.  The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."  Same goes for a command prompt.  I "cd" into the folder, but a "dir" is returning "File Not Found".

The other thing I just noticed is that this folder used to be called just "OtherStuff".  A while back I changed my IP address in my local network to 192.168.1.99 - and that might somehow explain that folder's name being changed and now being “OtherStuff on 192.168.1.99”.  Strange in any case because I would not have done this intentionally.   So my first thought is maybe this folder is pointing to the wrong place on the disk or the name is accidentally wrong.  However, right now I can access "F:\OtherStuff on 192.168.1.99\" and its contents and other sub-directories just fine.  So the problem is somehow with just the "F:\OtherStuff on 192.168.1.99\MyDocs\" directory specifically.

Any ideas on what to do?  I'm quite sure this entire disk did not fail as I can access most of the data and folders on it.  It seems I'm just having problems with this one folder.

I would run chkdsk or scandisk or disk defragmenter, but since these files are important to me - I'm definitely going to get advice before doing anything first!
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