Im having this problem with one particular drive specifically after i merged two partitions together. My original configuration for the machine was my WD 80Gig that had Windows XP Professional on it and a WD 120Gig that had Windows Server 2003 Eval Edition. I had A LOT of crap on both drives and decided i was going to reformat both drives and start clean. I got through backing up most of it but then decided that i was just going to make a 40 gig partition on my 120gig drive that had Server on it. So I made the partition, dumped all the data that i wanted to keep onto it and decided to reformat both drives that had OS's on them. When it came to installing the OS's i decided to take a different approcach, I put the OS's on there own partitions, on just the 80Gig drive and decided i was going to use the 120 gig exclusively for data. I loaded back up partition magic onto the XP drive because you cant run it from server. Decided that i was going to merge the partitions back, it asked me what folder i wanted to put all the data that was on the drive into on the newly merged partition, it went all the way through no problems. Went to sleep and let it run, woke up this morning, the drives were merged i had all of my drive back in one, but........ the folder that i moved all the data to is giving me "Access Denied" errors, i right click on the folder and it tells me 0 Bytes as if nothing is in the folder, but if i click onto the properties of the drive it tells me that the drive still has 27 gigs used up, so i know the data is there somewhere i just cant get to it. I did a thorough scandisk and went to work and it ran, still having the same problems, I didnt want to really try anything else in fear of losing the rest of the data and not being able to get it back
ANY suggestions would be much appreciated
ANY suggestions would be much appreciated