Path does not exist error

Question

I am running Windows 7 Pro on a desktop PC with multiple hard drives. This error is showing up when I attempt to open a file that shows up in explorer when i navigate to its folder. The disk it is on is a Dynamic disk attached locally. it is a different disk than the operating system. I recently reimaged my os back from Windows 10 but that didn't affect the disk the file is stored on. Windows allows me to copy and save the file in the same folder, yet says it can't find it when i go to launch it. Recently also renamed a couple disks and tried to set up a hardware raid but this disk also was not renamed or included in the prospective raid array. Why would explorer tell me it can't find a file that it is presenting to me?

Answer 1

Maybe what you click is a shortcut or a symbolic link rather than the file itself. If so then the error message relates to the shortcut's target.

Answer 2

Wasn't a shortcut. It was the actual file. Don't know how it got fixed to be honest, but once you rule out user error, there wasn't very much info that I could find that was helpful. I've completely reformatted both drives since then but the problem seemed to correct itself with a reboot before I did that. I say seemed because I then had the same issue with another file but the one in the screenshot worked at that time. The problem is gone now. Thanx for the input.