Folder Corruption!

[Rhydant]

Alright, so I'm moving files around on my media drive (160GB Seagate, brand frickin' new) and all of a sudden my main folder for random zips, movies, music, etc, becomes corrupt. I try to click on the folder through Explorer and I get this message:
Rrandom\winamp5pro is not accessibile. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.

And when I try to delete the root directory, it gives me this:
Cannot delete winamp5pro: the directory is not empty.

I'm not sure what exactly happened. Literally 2 minutes before this happened, I was in the folder and opening/deleting files. The folder had around 80gb of files in it, so I'm thinking maybe Windows 2000 has a folder capacity limit?

I guess that leaves me with two choices: figure out how to delete the files so I can get the space back, or somehow recover the files. There isn't anything terribly important in there (other than my porn collection ), so losing everything wouldn't be so bad.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[AstroBlue]

Run scandisc

[Rhydant]

Shut down, unplug drive.
Boot up, burn CD of important files from other drive just incase the PC decides to burst into flames.
Shut down, plug drive back in.
Boot up, drive is nowhere to be found. Go into admin tools and find drive in disk management and with 128gb of unallocated space.

WTF IS GOING ON NOW?!?!?!!!

[Calliander]

Sounds like a bad drive. Can you hear it making any noises? If not, the problem is probably the drive's board.

[NightWolve]

WTF IS GOING ON NOW?!?!?!!!

Can you say buh-bye?? Buh-bye...

Ok, this in a USB or Firewire case? Should've ran "chkdsk /x /f <driveletter>:" while you still had an accessible file system. Anyway, if it's not your case, and Disk Admin shows an unallocated 128gb hdd, then the partition table's gone (corrupted or deleted). Don't fall apart just yet.

If you no longer have an accessible file system, you'll need a Disaster Data Recovery tool to salvage what you can off that drive, then do a full format to see if it's still useable in the future. Try GetDataBack for NTFS. That'll scan your drive and recover files if it can to allow you to save to another drive for backup. You have to make room on your system drive and burn stuff off. I can't think of anything else atm. If there's no way to make that file system accessible to windows again, a tool like this is your only hope.