External drive folder "invisible"

Win XP MCE 2005 suddenly is unable to "see" the contents of my music storage
folder on a Maxtor external hard drive connected by USB, instead showing the
folder in Win Explorer and in My Computer as being empty. Once in a while it
shows the contents when I open Win Explorer, but usually not. Running
checkdisk doesn't help. Thanks.

same here for a while now. never found and help.
if i switch over to 2nd os (vista), the folders are there
and filled with files.

bye


frank



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I don't know the answer but when the folder is empty, what does the folder
show when you right click it and select properties? I assume it shows there
are files in the folder. Are there other files on the external drive that
show up when the music files do not? When the files are there, have you
tried transferring them to a new folder?
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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"Churchy LaFemme" <ChurchyLaFemme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Win XP MCE 2005 suddenly is unable to "see" the contents of my music
> storage
> folder on a Maxtor external hard drive connected by USB, instead showing
> the
> folder in Win Explorer and in My Computer as being empty. Once in a while
> it
> shows the contents when I open Win Explorer, but usually not. Running
> checkdisk doesn't help. Thanks.