I use Windows XP Professional as my operating system and, for many years, I have been collecting thousands of screen grabs into a vast number of folders within one main folder. I have this data stored on TWO external NTFS hard drives and they are supposed to mirror one another.
I have now discovered that my laptop with 2GB of RAM cannot open that top-level folder and won't supply right-click functionality.
The drive *is* flashing as though it is possible access could be granted if I were to wait long enough for it all to load.
However, in the past I have "learnt the hard way" that if you use long file names and have long navigation paths within Windows you can lose access to files.
Have I exceeded a maximum which means I have permanent lost all means to retrieve ANY of the data ?
I should be receiving a new Windows 7 machine with 16GB of RAM within the next week. Is there any hope that that device will help me regain access or have I lost all of the data forever
?