Folders inacessible after upgrading Win98SE to Win2K

[therealshadowknight]

I just upgraded a stand alone pc running windows 98se to windows 2000.

The upgrade seems to have went well overall except the following:

The pc has 2 drives (C: and D:). C: was FAT32 and was converted to NTFS during the upgrade. D was FAT32 and only had documents and media, but no installed software. Now, after the upgrade, it is still FAT32 but some folders and files are inaccessible. The drive was about 98% full and still appears to be so. In some cases I can go down into folders but when I double click documents or media, instead of opening the related app, I get an error message about "the parameter is not correct". In some cases folders appear now be empty and in others I can't even enter the folder.

Is this a permissions issue? Did something go wrong during the upgrade? Does Win2k upgrade other drives to NTFS besides the boot drive?

Thanks for any help.

[Tarun]

You could convert the drive to NTFS. Use this command:

convert D: /fs:ntfs

[therealshadowknight]

I'll try that. Do you think that converting it to NTFS will make the files and folders accessible?

Thanks!

[cluberti]

It depends - if the paths to the files are incredibly long (200+ characters), or have invalid characters, etc, this can cause an otherwise full folder or path to become inaccessible or invisible. Converting to NTFS won't solve this particular type of issue, although I don't know in your case if this applies or not.