FAT32 Problem

[Chaotic42]

Hey.

I have a directory on a 30GB FAT32 drive. X:\z\DOCUMENT\CHAOTIC4\RECENT

Inside of "RECENT" is a file with no name. It shows up as being grayed out in Windows Explorer. It's 0 Bytes. Whenever I try to delete it, the computer says the file is in use.

Even the all-powerful rm -rf in Debian can't do anything. It says the directory isn't empty and exits.

This file screws up disk checks, Ad-ware checks, etc. What can I do to remove it?

 

[bersl2]

Get everything you can off the drive and remake the filesystem. You can do that natively, or a mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb1 or whatever should work.

 

[Hyperblaze]

you could boot up with a windows start up disk and delete it in dos?

or maybe you already tried that..dunno