What's wrong with my files?

Question

I made a folder called "Other" where I put a lot of junk videos in. There are about 10 good videos, and the rest are corrupt. The rest of my (external (made from an external kit) hard drive works perfectly, however, when I move any video file to "Other" or move folders full of video into there, they become unplayable.

Windows Media Player give the error message "Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your proxy settings might not be correct."

It's about a 200 gig hard drive (186 gig when formatted). Keep in mind that all of my other files outside of this "Other" folder work. And I cannot move the "corrupted" files out of there.

I temporarily fixed these files a few weeks ago by using the Check Disk tools with automatically fix file system errors and scan for and attempt of recovery of bad sectors. That didn't work this time.

What's up with this hard drive?

Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

The next time you "fix" this folder, make a "backup" folder, and copy everything into it.
If "Other" gets corrupt, and "backup" doesn't, you may actually have somevirus or worm running that is accessing the "other" directory on a regular basis, and corrupting as it goes (most viruses being poorly written)
t may also be that a sector that contains the FAT for that folder is becoming bad.

Answer 2

Sounds like those sectors of your hard drive are ready to go to the big junkyard in the sky.

See if you can burn your "other" directory onto a CD and try recovering them on another drive.

Answer 3

did you test the hard drive controller. i had a bad one once that kept corrupting my files

Answer 4

Could be a bad driver, could be a bad controller, or a bad hard drive.

Answer 5

dude doo yourself a favor and do a compleate removal of said file and that should do it...