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External drive, root folder inside the root folder?

Matttis
By Matttis
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Hey everyone!

I have a weird problem with my external drive. The root folder appears to be inside the root folder.

 

When I open the folder shown in the attachment the same folder opens. I can do that infinitely.
And if I search for something inside the root folder I get the same result over and over again.

 

How do I get rid of that? Do I really have to format the drive to fix that?

I have no idea how this happened.

 

 

root.JPG

 

 

test.JPG

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*avoids messing with root entirely himself*

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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3 hours ago, Matttis said:

How do I get rid of that? Do I really have to format the drive to fix that?

Probably yes. Maybe you could boot a linux distro and connect the drive and see if it can make sense of it. "\" is not an allowed character in filenames on Windows and hell will break loose if some corruption makes one slip in but AFAIK Linux doesn't care.

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9 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Probably yes. Maybe you could boot a linux distro and connect the drive and see if it can make sense of it. "\" is not an allowed character in filenames on Windows and hell will break loose if some corruption makes one slip in but AFAIK Linux doesn't care.

Now that you mention it, I hooked up my drive to my router once because it has a NAS feature. Maybe that's where the folder came from...

I'll try Linux tomorrow. Messing with it in Windows doesn't work because deleting that folder actually does delete the content of the whole drive...
So yeah, hell does indeed break loose 😅

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This guy messed with that for fun and it's funny to see how badly you can screw it up 😆

 

 

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Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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