Seagate 500 gb hard drive doesnt show stored files

Alisa563352f

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Yeah! We really need much more information to go on.
As I know, as someone's files cannot be shown on the computer, there are three possible reasons:

1). Accidentally hide them.
Hidden files always cannot be seen, but they are still there. so, you need to show them up like this: Start > Run > Type in "control folders" > View > “Show hidden files and folders”.

2). Virus infection problems.
Nowadays, virus infection also could cause your problems. You are supposed to scan your drive with an efficient antivirus tool as soon as possible.
These free antivirus tools may help you:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/379993/best-free-antivirus-for-2013

3). Hard drive problems.
In some cases, some hard drive problems also could bring your similar problems. In case of worse situations, you could try to use data recovery software for restoring your saved data back and take some chances to format this drive.
In these days, data recovery software are highly developed to restore inaccessible data from a hard drive.
Here are some drive data recovery freeware that could help you a lot:
http://geeksdo.com/freeware/data-recovery.html

Note: Next time, I hope data backups could be your resolution.