<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:21 PM, ginto joseph <<a href="mailto:ginto.joseph8@gmail.com" target="_blank">ginto.joseph8@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> u are ri8 i am just a student. i am studying engg 1st yr. i like ubuntu much, so joined in the community. i didn't know the useage of sms language wil make this much problem. actually i am 1st to a community so didnt know abt the pattern u r using. so sory. now i will tell i hav multi boot ubuntu and windows7. for ubuntu i gave a separate partition the other partitions are nfts file systems. one of my ntfs partition which had some data files such as games n all was become hidden only in ubuntu not in windows. it is not kept hidden in window manager. after somedays the files and folders become visible again without doing anything in ubuntu. wat may be the reason? </blockquote></div> Would appreciate if you mail to the list only or NOT to any one directly. Now that the files are visible, i would suggest that you do a File system check on the NTFS partition that was acting up. Pl so this from Windows ONLY and NOT thru Ubuntu. Any inconsistency would then be addressed by the Check disk program on Windows 7. Narendra