Disappearing folder

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The power cable to one of my drives came out while the computer was on. After
restarting, Vista auto-ran chkdsk against it and deleted an index entry for a
folder.

Now, the folder has disappeared, but the space on the drive is till being
taken up. chkdsk says the drive is fine and without error, and a couple
shareware programs haven't found anything either - they show the data as
being there and uncorrupt.

Any ideas?
 
Is the space a lot of space? How are you determining it's there, but not
available? Have you used Command Prompt to run the dir /a command for the
folder or drive the data is on?
 
It's a 60GB folder, and the only other folder on the drive is 1GB right now.

dir /a shows nothing.
 
I lied. I misunderstood the usage of dir /a. After putting :h on the end, I
found some files that Explorer couldn't access, but the command line could.
Windows apparently renamed the parent folder and marked it extra super-secret
hidden.

Thanks!
 
I'm glad you found it. Were you able to unhide the parent folder? If it's
a folder with hidden system attributes, or you're not sure and you just want
a normal folder, you can use the attrib command to change that, for example:

attrib -S -H -R C:\MyFolders\MySuperHiddenFolder

Press Enter.
 
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