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The folder names on my external hard drive have turned to gibberish
I have a nearly new portable external hard drive which is organized into 30 or 40 folders, each with further files in it. The names of the folders on this hard drive have turned to gibberish and I have no idea how to fix this problem. Here is a screen cap showing the problem:
For what it's worth the folder names are also gibberish when I view them from a command prompt. And here's what happens if I click on one of the folders to see what's in it:
I've tried running Avast and MalwareBytes scans but they don't find anything wrong.
Is there anything I can do to repair my folder names and access the files once again?
I've only had the external hard drive a few weeks.