Problems accessing hard drive and general weirdness

[Spike]

Hi,

Recently my spare hard drive has been acting very strange. When I double click it to access the files it takes about 2 minutes during which time the computer more or less freezes. Then when it finally opens the files it only shows one folder there, even though I know there should be many more folders and files. They're not deleted because when I check the drive properties there is the correct amount of used/free space.

I've tried unplugging as much as I could from my PSU and swapping the cables round to my hard drive because I thought it might not be getting enough juice. This hasn't made any difference.

1. Is there any remedy... has anyone else had this problem?

2. Failing a remedy, is there anyway I can recover my files?

Oh yea and finally, say if I type into windows explorer E:\downloads\music\info.txt (a file which I know is in this location) and press
enter, it will open the text file, even though the 'downloads' folder doesn't appear when I access the drive directly from windows explorer.

This leads to me believe I can recover the files somehow.

Anyway and help greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Dan

 

[Spike]

Ah good old scandisk, forgot it existed it's been so long.


Unfortunately though it doesn't finish, gives me an error message. I guess the drive is stuffed. Is there any way I can recover my files? Seeing as I can seem to access things if I type the directory path directly into explorer.

Is there any other solution?


Thanks

 

[Spike]

No joy with accessing from command line - same story.

Looks like its truly had it.

Cheers for advice anyway

Dan