file names and folder names have been changed into some values automatically

Posted: 07-11-2008, 10:38 AM

harish9999

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Hi There,
Can anyone please help me. one of My Major folder in my Externa
hard(western digital 1TB) drive is not accessible at all.. their fil
names and folder names have been changed into some values, and folder
in it have turned into 0 kb. but the root folder shows the accurate siz
of all the folders even the one which is corrupted.. So is there an
possibility to recover that folder. which has all my major works in it

Error: file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect!

*Thanks in Advance..
Harish..

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Malke

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Re: file names and folder names have been changed into some values automatically

Posted: 07-11-2008, 01:10 PM

harish9999 wrote:

>
> Hi There,
> Can anyone please help me. one of My Major folder in my External
> hard(western digital 1TB) drive is not accessible at all.. their file
> names and folder names have been changed into some values, and folders
> in it have turned into 0 kb. but the root folder shows the accurate size
> of all the folders even the one which is corrupted.. So is there any
> possibility to recover that folder. which has all my major works in it?
> *
> Error: file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect!*

1. What happens if you attach the drive to a different computer?
2. What antivirus do you have installed?
3. If this is a My Book, what do Western Digital tech support say?

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harish9999

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Re: file names and folder names have been changed into some values automatically

Posted: 07-11-2008, 07:15 PM

Malke;773251 Wrote:

> harish9999 wrote:

> > > >
> > > > 1. What happens if you attach the drive to a different computer?

> 2. What antivirus do you have installed?
> 3. If this is a My Book, what do Western Digital tech support say?
>
> Malke
>

Thanks for ur reply Malke,
yeah i have tried connecting to a different laptop but its still shows
the same..
and i use avg 7.5 free edition. and i haven't talked to western digital
tech support yet.
i think they wont care about the data other than, if its a hardware
problem!!

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Jim5753

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Re: file names and folder names have been changed into some values automatically

Posted: 12-01-2008, 03:51 AM

Hi Harish, did you manage to solve this? Any solution

I'm also facing the same problem right now with my external hard driv
and it affected most of my important folders.

Can anyone please help me.

Thank
Ji

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