NTFS could be corrupted and thousands of files on disk but XP can't find it.

[mxnerd]

I have a partition that's is 340G and I move all of the files to my new SATA drive, except 2 folders which is stubborn to get deleted. One folder always show "Cannot delete ***, the file name you specified is not valid or too long." The other always show "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from source file or disk."

The system showed that 35G of files is still on the disk, but when I use Windows explorer to view the disk, it can't find anything on it except the 2 folders I mentioned above. I did show hidden files and systems.

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This is CHKDSK result.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

356522508 KB total disk space.
35333924 KB in 37529 files.
9700 KB in 116 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
580056 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
320598828 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
89130627 total allocation units on disk.
80149707 allocation units available on disk.
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I have run chkdsk several times and it can't find any errors, buit it always shows that I still have 35G of files on the disk, and more than 37000 files, no bad sectors.

What's going on here?

 

[spyordie007]

I'm assuming you've already taken ownership of the directories and assigned yourself proper privileges...

Next step may be to try a 3rd party recovery tool (i.e. Active@Undelete).