Hi, any help on this issue highly appreciated.

I have to hard drives installed, an 80gb Maxtor as master drive and a 160gb Western Digital drive as a slave. The drive I'm having an issue with here is the slave drive, and I'm hoping this problem isn't due to faulty drive, as I've already replaced once and this one is a week old!

Ok, lets say I have 10 mp3 files which make up an album, and I want to move them into a folder named after the album, to categorise it so to speak. What happens is I copy these files into the folder, then for some reason the files now become un-readable, and if I copy the folder into another folder, the folder now becomes un-readable. I've managed to recover some of the files with data recovery software (this by the way lets me look into the folders, but explorer will not). It lets me rename files and folders, but if I move any the file seems to become void and this is EXTREMELY annoying. I really hope there is a simple solution to this! My computer appears completely clean of a viruses and spyware. I've tried unchecking the 'read-only' box on properties. Also these folders are now completely un-deletable, I'd like to know how to get rid of them also. Thanks!

I use WINDOWS XP SP2.

Now this is strange, I recovered some files (by going into the folder on PC Inspector File Recovery and using the 'save to...' function to move the files onto c: drive) and now when I play the files they are completely different...kind of a mash up of other music tracks (I think possibly other tracks that have also become un-readable in explorer) so I'm getting a sense that there's some serious data corruption going on the with the slave drive?

This may help, in order to get the drive working as a slave, I had to install XP (in order to partition it) then take the drive to a friends house and formatted it through WIN XP (it was set as slave) in order to remove WIN XP from the drive (I took it to a friends house because my operating system kept booting this drive as a master, when I wanted the 80gb as a master, and my friend has Win 2000 so it allowed him to do this) so perhaps something went corrupt along this route?

To add to the conundrum even more it seems it's only when I 'cut' files and move them into a different location that they then become un-accessable. But copying a file to a different location means the copy of the file will work fine. Hmm...

Upon further exploration, it turns out it only does it in the 'my music' folder, a folder which was copied off another hard drive, and is a big folder (about 70GB big)

Perhaps a defrag and error check could fix the problem? (being very hopeful, hehe!)

So it's only your music that is threatened by this? Then if you can copy, you should make a folder named "My Music b" and copy your 70gb of files maybe 10gb at a time, deleting the old files after they're copied.

Aye that's an idea which may work. One problem I will still be left with though is there will still be un-deletable folders within the music folder, so I won't be able to remove the original 'my music' folder once I've copied everything over (well, everything that will let me copy anyway!) so I'm not sure what to do about this?

This little tool will delete just about anything:

http://www.jrtwine.com/Products/DelF...lesInstall.zip