I did a search but came up with nothing, so I'm putting this here. I have recently started to get into modding, and want to go a little further in depth than the simple stuff. I wanted to do a re-texture of Azura's Star, create a new texture under a different mesh. So I opened up the CS, and went to find the .nif. Couldn't find it, so I went straight to the folder it is located in, according to the CS, the w subfolder under meshes. I couldn't find the file anywhere, not even doing a search worked.
Any ideas what is going on with this? I've noticed that a number of the stock .nifs cannot be located, even using searches, but all the .nifs from mods are present.

Also, if someone could point me in the direction of a really good guide for retexturing .nifs and glowmapping, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

They are all packed in bsa files. Here a bsa unpacker:
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=12189

you also should have gotten a second cd with all those files stored on it, unless you downloaded it somewhere

Thanks for the fast replies. I didn't get a second disk, I bought the GOTY edition online, brand new.

you can get a bse unpacker and extract the files but don't extract to your game folder

The GOTY DVD has the contents of all 4 original CDs - Morrowind, the Construction Set, Tribunal and Bloodmoon. Each of the individual folders have the original data files (meshes, textures etc.) and IIRC there is also a combined folder which has all of the data files in it. Search around on the DVD and see what's there.