Re: Ask EU - external hard drives

Jane Vernon wrote:
K Richard W wrote:
Waiting for Daff's Caff to re-open, Jane Vernon living at decided to tell uk.media.radio.archers that
We have an external hard drive made out of the hard drive of an old computer fitted into a case. We used it for emergency panic-level backup for a while but then stopped worrying and haven't used it for a long time. Having found a new use for it we got it out of the drawer and wiped off or moved all the stuff on it.

It is partitioned, and using Windows Explorer to open each 'drive', there are no files or folders visible in either.
My first guess is that you have some hidden files or folders. You probably need to reset the attributes at dos level for the entire drive using a command line interface.

Something like

e\:attrib *.* -h

if I remember correctly

Sounds promising. But how would I get to dos level to do that? I am using XP. I'm not sure one can get to dos with XP. If so, I could probably use dir to find what was there, I thought, but have no idea how to reach such a point.

Go into Control Panel*>Tools>Folder Options>View and under advanced settings, you've the option to show hidden files and folders.

*You should be able to get to Tools from Win Explorer anyhow.
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