Hi,
it may be that the file contained in the folder was infected by the virus and so running the antivirus deleted it.
check if you can find it in the virus vault of the antivirus.

Hello,
my external hardisk's one folder is not accesible and cannot be deleted, when i click that folder one message box appear & some message written there such as - "G\SOFTWARE(a folder) is not acessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". this problem was happened when i was scan my hard disk by a antivirus & that time my computer was not responding, so that time i opened directly the USB connection of harddisk from CPU.Then this problem is occured and now that folder is show that i.e empty.
Other tah that, I have a problem too i plug my USB external hard disk and it's already detected and the drive show up in my computer but when i clicked it it says F:/ is not accessible and The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
how can i recover all my data???..can it be repair???...if u have any solution than please help me...

Configuration: Windows XP

I was transfering some files to my external HD and now the folders showed empty, lost all my info , what are my options?

I had the same thing happen a few times. I forget what they're call it, but you got a worm sneaky b but not a mig deal. You got an infection of some sort. All in all nothing too serious, more resource hogs than anything, but that's not what's so maddening about them A bunch send BHO's (browser helper objects) into your system with one job -- block all spyware/security sites using your own firewall or hijack the browser, changing the address to any of those sghts. So when you investigate what's going on, your virus software appears to have died and won't let you do what you need to fix it.

I'm pretty sure I killed mine with Superantiapyware and malwarebytes.com They're both free.. Superanti for two weeks, Malware forever if you want or you ca nbuy a copy as well . If I remember correctly I put those two on a USB on someone's clean computer, then booted mine in safe mode, ran them a few times in a row. When SPybot could get an update past them, I sicc'd it on them and that was ti intil laterl

I think what I ended up doing was DL'ing a few/sweep programs installed onto 1 gig usb drive, got around em like that for a minute that way, enough so Spybot could get it's foot in the door and then kick it's butt.

good luck