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leory   01-25-2012 at 11:00:22 PM

Recently I re-installed a fresh copy of windows 7 onto one of my two hard drives due to a virus my computer had contracted. However after re-attaching my internal 2tb hard drive I can no longer access the files through windows explorer. Windows recognizes the drive and even displays the correct amount of free space left on the drive; I can also access folders and open files by typing in the directory even though they don’t appear in windows explorer.

I would like to avoid reformatting if possible as I have a lot of files I need on this drive.

Thanks in advance.


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Realbeast   01-25-2012 at 11:15:23 PM

When you look at the drive in disk management does it have a drive letter assigned?

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leory   01-25-2012 at 11:20:14 PM

Turns out everything was just hidden. Don't know how they got hidden, but thanks.

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Realbeast   01-25-2012 at 11:21:49 PM
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That is not an uncommon issue when doing a reinstallation. Glad it worked out well and remember to back up if you really like those files. :)

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Mousemonkey   02-04-2012 at 10:54:25 AM

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