"Hidden" attribute

[Guest chromian]

I do hope someone can help me please. I am entirely new to Vista.

 

While mucking around trying to figure out why a legacy program would not

run, I decided to "unhide" the gateway recovery partition and somehow copy

the files to a disk.

 

Anyway, so that I would not injure the protected files I first copied the

files to a D drive partition created with Partition Magic V8.

 

I then used the Vista burner interface to prepare the files (on D) to burn a

dvd.

 

The size was over 5Gb, so it was not going to work.

 

I baled out, but kept getting a popup that said I had files prepared for

burning. So I went back into the burner window and deleted the files from

the list.

 

All the files and directories then became hidden. In the hidden partition,

and on D drive. I presume that Vista had locked the list of files to be

burned, and they are still locked even now.

 

When I view the directories for D I can see the folder names but no

contents. All the attributes are hsd for example.

 

I am obviously missing something. I would be most grateful for help. I

really need to create a system backup or ideally a restore set for the

Gateway recovery files.

 

I am a long way away from making my legacy software work on Vista.

 

Thanks

 

 

Ian