I am running an EMachines T2080 with XP Home SP2, Panda Titaium A/V with Antispyware. I have a Maxtor 240 gb external drive, portioned into '3' sections labeled 'G', 'H' & 'I', each at approx. 80 gb, used to store family pictures, videos and audio books. I don't turn it on often, but did today, to move some pictures from drive 'C' to 'I'. I opened 'My Computer' after turning the external drive on to see which partition contained my 'Pictures Folder' which was on the 'I' partition. I held the curser over the 'I' partition to see how much space I had left and in the details on the left side of the page it read, Total Size: 83.8gb with Free Space: 10.6gb. I then clicked on the 'I' partition to open it up, then clicked on the 'Pictures Folder' (the first of 3 folders on 'I') and received an error message "I:\Picture Folder is not Accessible, Access is denied. I held the curser over the "Pictures Folder" and a dialogue line appeared that stated "Folder is Empty" and under details on the left side of the page the following information appeared; Local Disk, File System: NTFS, Attributes: Compressed, then the date the file was last modified. I right clicked on "Pictures Folder" then Properties and under properties the following info. was given Type: file Folder, Location I:\, Size '0' Bytes, Size on Disk '0' Bytes, Contains '0' Files,'0' Folders, Attributes: Read only. Under Attributes - Advanced, the only '2' tabs that were checked are 1) For fast searching allow indexing service to index this folder and 2) Compress contents to save disk space. No tabs are checked under 'Sharing' or Customize. I even tried to move a folder from 'I' to 'G' with no success.
Partitions 'G' & 'H' are not affected by this problem. I can open any folder on each, view what is in the folders and even view videos. I do not understand why I am getting the error message 'I:\ is not accessible and that I am getting conflicting information regarding the 'gb' size on the partition.
I had "compress disc to save space" checked, it is now unchecked; "Allow indexing..."is still checked. I have run Windows, disc check, O.K. I have run Norton System Doctor, Win Doctor and Disc Doctor, all O.K. I can not move the folders and I have not tried to delete because I want what is in each folder. ANY help would be greatly appreciated for I am the families "Keeper of the Pictures" and have not backed them up (I know - Not Smart).
Thank you
Biggles

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