No Files Found on External HDD

islerider

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Mar 23, 2014
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I downloaded/copied some movie and music files onto a seagate 500GB free agent Go Flex external hard drive using an ACER computer.
I even watched a movie and listened to some music immediately after copying.
Upon arriving home, I plugged the external hard drive into my compaq computer, and attemptewd to open some files. There was a folder there that said music folder, but when I clicked on it, i got a message saying that this folder is empty. I was like Whaaa?
There were also no movie files present. However, when I clicked on "properties", it said that 265 GB of the hard drive was full, but I still could view no files. Movies or music.
Can you please assist.
 

mcdonh

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Oct 8, 2013
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This has happened to me twice now, first time the files where just hidden, you can look up a tutorial of how to show hidden folders, second time they had just disappeared, I formatted my HDD and copied my stuff across again. If you still have the stuff on your other laptop you could just format the HDD and copy it across again. You might also try watching/listening to it on the Acer