HTML Files Disappearing

[Munch]

I have a problem which started about a couple of months ago, but found no answer.

Whenever I save a file on my hard drive as a HTML file, it will just vanish. The icon may appear for a second but it'll go again. It started when I did some work on a new site while in college as I had no other work to do. I saved the files to a flash drive when I was finished working on it in college.

When I got home and put the files on my hard drive, the icon of the file transferring just vanished. I tried again and still had no luck. I tried renaming the file (on the flash drive) and it still vanished. I then tried loading the file with Macromedia Dreamweaver and saved it on the hard drive. It vanished again.

I have tried doing the above mentioned tests in another folder and the result was the same. I then tried renaming the file while it is still there, visible, but then it tells me the file cannot be found (meaning the file isn't really there).

I have tried restarting the computer and I still have the problem. This is also only affecting HTML files, other file extensions such as PHP are fine.

I am currently using Vista (temporarily until I get W7) though I have not long had it installed.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any idea how I'd be able to solve it? And yes, I have looked on Google, so you don't need to post any lmgtfy links.

[Kase]

Did you try to scan your PC for viruses? This is the only thing which comes up in my mind actually

[Munch]

Yes, I've scanned for viruses, spyware, malware, cleaned my registry...the only thing I have not tried is defrag, but I hate doing that and would like to avoid it if I can. And unless I get W7 I'm not going to do a reformat either.

[STyL4]

well, ive looked through all ur files etc. and i found nothing interesting, i think HTML is not the problem.. imo

[iou]

Sounds like a hard drive failure, I had this on my school laptop, my html/php files kept disappearing.

[Munch]

Well my hard drive is getting pretty old now, and had its fair share of formats. Started out at 320GB max space, now down to 298GB. I've been planning on getting a new internal hard drive (the 320GB is internal too) as this one gets full too easy now, so I guess I'll just make that one a secondary drive.

In the mean time, though, I'd like to explore other options, if others have any idea how to solve the issue without any formatting or getting a new hard drive.

[Matthias]

Hm maybe the file extension is hidden in Windows or so?

[0Target0]

Hm maybe the file extension is hidden in Windows or so?

That would be rofl 

[Munch]

Hm maybe the file extension is hidden in Windows or so?

Nah I just checked, it's not that.

[Matthias]

Does this keep happening even if you rename it to index.htmlbla or so?