External hard drive doesnot show folders although it still has.

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hsabharwal13 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 22 January 2014 Status Member Last seen 23 January 2014 - 22 Jan 2014 à 08:42
hsabharwal13 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 22 January 2014 Status Member Last seen 23 January 2014 - 23 Jan 2014 à 04:03
Hey i have tried -h-r-s/s\d h:\*.* in the run menu but it shows the message "windows cannot find -h. Make sure you have typed the name correctly and then try again". Could you please tell any other way that i can access my folders on my hard drive
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 1,824
22 Jan 2014 à 17:24
The above command assumes the drive is named "h". You need the replace "h" with the drive letter of your external drive and copy the command EXACTLY since the spacing is important.

attrib -h -r -s /s /d h:\*.*

attrib <space> -h <space> -r <space> -s <space> /s <space> /d <space> h:\*.*

Good Luck
hsabharwal13 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 22 January 2014 Status Member Last seen 23 January 2014
23 Jan 2014 à 03:19
It is showin only those folders of which I had taken backup from my system. Others that I took from someone else's drive aren't showing.
After running the above command it shows" access denied- I:\$recycle.bin\s.....".this message.
And now my drive's name is "I".
hsabharwal13 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 22 January 2014 Status Member Last seen 23 January 2014
23 Jan 2014 à 03:26
I had left the window citing it would complete the process and the work but it has been like this for quite sometime and the window is still open showing the acess denied $recycle.bin message...
hsabharwal13 Posts 4 Registration date Wednesday 22 January 2014 Status Member Last seen 23 January 2014
23 Jan 2014 à 04:03
hey it is done and done... thank you so much!