# Harddrive empty?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-empty/186995>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 25, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-empty/186995 "2006-04-25T21:43:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![danulf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danulf/32/555_2.png) [@danulf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/danulf)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-empty/186995/1 "2006-04-25T21:43:19Z")

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I was going to play some music on my external harddrive, but the program couldn’t find my musicfiles. I looked in my music folder an saw that it was empty! I looked through every folder on the HDD, and all the folders were empty (0 bytes). Only the root folder on the two partitions are left. If I look in the properties, the amount of used space is like before, but there’s nothing in the folders! I have no idea what’s wrong, but my brother borrowed it, and he might have had a virus. He had it plugged in to his computer all night, so if he had a virus, it might have gotten into it.

Have this happened to anyone here? I mean, it’s like the files is invisible, but still taking up space… Hope there is a solution to all of this, I don’t want to loose 130gb worth of files, programs and schoolwork.

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**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-empty/186995/2 "2006-04-25T22:13:29Z")

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just throwing this out there…

did you enable showing hidden folders?

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**Author:** ![danulf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danulf/32/555_2.png) [@danulf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/danulf)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-empty/186995/3 "2006-04-25T22:31:00Z")

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well… they’re not hidded… But it turned out that my USB ports just suddely broke for no apperent reason at all! Stupid me! Thanks anyway 😃 Me brother and I was really worried for some time there 😛