Hello. I've been having some problems with files in WinXP as of late - generally with files/folders created on my Desktop. A file will often become unopenable, unmovable and un-editable. The name stays the same, the file size stays the same - everything. It'll just give me an error, like "myFolder is not accessible" or it will open a jpg in my image viewer (ACDSee) but won't display any of the image data.
On a whim, I booted into Ubuntu, and tried to access the files there. Success! They all open and are accessible without errors. I find that if I copy the files into a new directory, and then boot back into WinXP, I can read the files in the new folder, but the originals are still unopenable.
I ran chkdsk in WinXP, and it does give errors, but it won't let me fix them, since i'm accessing the drive. I set it to run a chkdsk on reboot, and when that happens - it doesn't find any errors! The errors are only found when running it in XP. The errors are similiar to this:
"Deleting an index entry from index $0 of file 25."
But of course, it doesn't do anything, since we're running in read-only mode.
About 3 months ago, I was having htis problem. I chalked it up to "time to reinstall" so while I was at it, I installed Ubuntu as well as XP. The problem did not disappear, and preliminary googling lead me no where. Then, a busy summer got in the way of any more troubleshooting.
Any ideas on what it could be? I'd guess it was the hard drive, but why would it work fine in Ubuntu? It's a 4-5 year old laptop. If it is the hard disk, should I replace it? It's my first laptop, and I'm not sure what the life expectancy is (speed wise, it's fine).
Thanks for any help you guys might have. I'm going nuts!!!
Greg
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