Question Files missing, but still taking up space on HD.

[QueBert]

Something happened and chkdsk ran when I rebooted and my music directory was gone, and a few others. I scanned the HD with a utility and it didn't detect any problems with SMART. I checked the free space and it would seem everything's still there. At worst most of the stuff's definitely still there is found.xxx directories I ordered a replacement so I can back it up. Here's my problem

(Windows 11 - if that makes any difference) The files are in found.000 and found.001, access is denied when try to open them. I opened a CMD in admin mode and tried manually setting h and s attribs, "not resetting system file" When I right click on either of the folders and hit properties it says I have full control. I Googled this but I'm stumped and at a loss what to do next. I know Windows has some feature where you can right click properties on a folder and restore what was in it, not sure how this works, but the folder's not even there so I can't even try that.

any suggestions?

 

[QueBert]

UGH never mind, it's been forever since I' ve used attrib and I was totally spacing on needing to specify the flags I needed to reset were for a directory not files. I still can't access the folder in Explorer "access denied" but could see the folders in Tree Size and was able to cut and paste the folders back to my drive.

But if anyone can explain how I can get it so I can access the folders in Explorer for future reference I'm all ears.