Help Needed : invisible user folder

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try some of those tommorrow. For now, I'm going to leave the RAID1 to self-verify overnight.........I have a suspicion it could be that, but we will see. Perhaps a chkdsk might point to a disk problem. Correct, Search does not find the folder.

Rich, unfortunately I'm between backups so there isn't anything to restore.......tonight was my "copy the RAID1 backup to my external USB". Its only when I went to look at it, that i noticed it had dissapeared on me.

Well, the RAID1 has verified without any problems, but the folder still remains invisible. If anyone has some other suggestions before I go the Linux/Hirens route, it would be very welcome.

Thanks,
Golden

Booted from Debian Live, and can see the folder and am copying it to an external USB drive.

Are you using Windows Backup?

Hi,

Lenerus : I use a ROBOCOPY script to mirror my working folders to a RAID1 backup on G:, and also to external USB drives Y: and Z:. Unfortunately they were out of sync, so I couldn't go back from the externals to the RAID1.

Wanchoo: Yes, thats what I was going to do, but because I don't know what caused this dissapearance in the first place, I prefer to format and re-establish the RAID1 from scratch again to ensure there aren't any gremlins on the hardware side.

I've also modified my ROBOCOPY backup script so it writes externally immediately after writing to RAID1 - usually I ran this as a seperate item.

Regards,
Golden

I only asked, because IIRC, Windows Backup makes its internal HDD backups invisible to Windows Explorer (maybe that only applies W2K8 Server).

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've recovered the folder using a Debian Live boot. Solved.

A Live Linux CD is a handy tool for dealing with Windows, when it becomes recalcitrant.