MICHAEL

Frank,

You may also want to do a chkdsk.

Open an elevated CMD prompt.

Type, chkdsk m: /x
Hit enter. Replace "m" with your usb drive letter.

For a bad sector scan, use chkdsk m: /x /r

The bad sector check may take a long time.


-Michael

* MICHAEL:
> Hey, Frank.
>
> Not sure if this is related, but twice now in the last two
> weeks on one of my external drives, I had a partition that
> showed up blank. The name of the volume and the drive
> letter would be displayed, but when I went to click on it
> there was nothing displayed. Even though, under "Computer"
> it showed the partition as having "50 GB free of 200 GB",
> clicking on the drive only showed a lot of empty white space,
> this partition is where I have my vhds and virtual machines.
> I didn't notice this until I went to use VPC 2007 and it didn't
> give me a list of my vhds to start. Really freaked me out the
> first time I saw this. I tried turning off/turning on the drive,
> that didn't work. So, I unplugged it and plugged it back in,
> that did work. The funny thing, this external has two partitions,
> and the other partition showed its contents just fine.
>
> This is the first time I have seen this, even since the beta days.
> I have no answers, maybe it's just a fluke... it's been about almost
> 5 days since it last happened.
>
> Wish I could be of more help.
>
>
> -Michael
>
> * Frank Bright:
>> Hi,
>> I'm on Vista Home Premium 32-bit and I've had a Maxtor One Touch II
>> external drive that has worked fine under Vista for a while.
>>
>> Now, oftentimes when I'm copying a file or folder to that drive and I click
>> to expand the "folder tree" of My Documents on my external drive, nothing
>> happens. It does not open up to show all my other folders within 'My
>> Documents'. Sometimes it does work - other times, not.
>>
>> As I said, this drive has worked fine under Vista for quite a while, so I
>> don't know whether this is Vista related ot not. I do know that the drivers
>> installed fine on this external hard drive and that there are no new Vista
>> drivers to download for this drive on the Maxtor site.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas, short of unplugguing and re-plugging to get this
>> thing unstuck? I appreciate any thoughts.
>> Many Thanks, Frank
>>