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how do i delete corrupt directories?

Shawn

Shawn

Lifer
a few directories on one of my hard drives got corrupt and it won't let me open them or delete them. chkdsk says there are no problems. WTF
 
no luck using the command line.

E:\ROCK_M~1>cd counti~1
Access is denied.

E:\ROCK_M~1>del counti~1
Could Not Find E:\ROCK_M~1\counti~1\*
 
[using hdd manufacturers utility] low level format the drive. then surface scan. if no errors -> keep it, if errors, throw it away.
 
Originally posted by: sadffffff
low level format the drive. then surface scan. if no errors -> keep it, if errors, throw it away.
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I've checked the drive several times and there are no bad sectors. however this isn't the first time i've encountered data corruption with this drive. i think the cache might be bad. I just disabled it just to be safe.
 
Have you tried deleting it by booting to an XP CD and running the recovery console, and using the command line there?
 
Wrong forum....

But you could try using BartPE (google it if you need to) to boot up, then delete the directories as needed. If that fails as well, then you probably have a HW problem and might just have to format the drive. I'm usually very hesitant to conclude that this kind of thing is a hardware issue -- it's almost always a software thing.
 
I ended up just copying everything off the partition, formatting it, and copying everything back on. Was a PITA. 40GB worth of stuff.
 
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