i have a pc with 160 gb hard disk i have saved my all personal pictures in drive e: and all movies in drive f:
i had windows vista home premium i had to uninstall it and I installed windows XP pro sp3
i checked my files in drive E: and F: my files are in partitions but i can not open my pictures and videos or rename them copy into another partition i see they have size and it seems they are not fake
windows tells there is program that does not allow to open them
i tried safe MODE too but no RESULT. I reinstalled XP and strange case happened
i can open my videos in drive F: now and i can not open my pictures in drive E:
and i reinstalled XP again but i can not open pictures yet .
i think there is a problem in formatting of partition.who does know about this problem?
How many partitions do you have?
Is Windows installed on C?
Was only C partition formatted?
What exactly do you mean, you can't open pictures?If you FORMAT all bets are off....
You may have formatted the WRONG partition.
Try taking ownership first...
ClickyHow many partitions do you have?
4
Is Windows installed on C?
YES
Was only C partition formatted?
YES and also D
What exactly do you mean, you can't open pictures?
when i check partition i see my all files and they have their own icons i open them by "windows picture and fax viewer" it tells : no preview available and Nero photosnap viewer tells : file is not exist
this problem is exist for other types such as text and doc files too
when i open a text file in this partition it tells it is not exist
when i copy new files such as picture or text or video to this partition now . i can open new photos but i can not open old photos before installing windows XP

Try to take the ownership of the FOLDER, where pictures are located: http://www.winxptutor.com/ownership.htmQuote from: patio on March 16, 2009, 02:51:04 PM

If you format all bets are off....
You may have formatted the wrong partition.
Try taking ownership first...
Clicky