Files are there, but they can't be opened

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Please help!
I have a 250GB NTFS hardrive packed with mp3 and wav files. This stuff
is very important to me because it is MP3s that I purchased on Emusic,
and wav files of my own music.

Anyhow, the problem I am having is that I can see the files on
Explorer, but I cannot access half of the files. For example, a
particular MP3 file will have all the properties of a 4.5mb file, but
when I doubleclick it to play, the player opens and nothing happens (I
have tried multiple audio players, so I know this is not the problem).
I have also tried loading some wav files into a music program (Acid),
but the program gives me a generic error message about not being able
to load half of the wav files.

I have run CHDISK, I have tried some demo versions of file recovery
software, I have done surface scans, I have reset permissions, I just
can't figure it out.

Prior to this happening, I got a lot of $I30 errors on a CHDISK, but
all the files were fine. I was also in the process of converting my CD
collection to MP3s, so the harddrive was making a lot of files and
directories.

Thanks for any help you have.

.



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