How to delete corrupted folder?

[NleahciM]

Hi - I have this folder that is really bothering me. When I try to delete it with windows explorer I get a "cannote delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk" message. Nero, which has always been my best friend when it comes to deleting/moving messed up files, doesn't even display a folder icon next to the folder. The folder is on my primary partition, and the hard drive is just fine. Any suggestions at all for deleting it? It's causing problems for me (can't copy containing folder, due to that corrupted folder) - so I'd really like to get it taken care of. Thanks!

 

[kamper]

I get that fairly frequently (jboss seems to cause this for some reason when it shuts down) but it's always solved itself either with a reboot or just plain time. Have you tried booting in safe mode and trying to nail it from the command line?

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by: kamper
I get that fairly frequently (jboss seems to cause this for some reason when it shuts down) but it's always solved itself either with a reboot or just plain time. Have you tried booting in safe mode and trying to nail it from the command line?

It's been there for a couple months - so I don't think it's going away. I'll try deleting it in safe mode though.

 

[NleahciM]

Well - I tried deleting it in safe mode and experienced identical symptoms to before. Any other thoughts?

By the way - how do you delete folders in dos? I had been thinking it was deltree but that doesn't seem to be working.

 

[NleahciM]

Any ideas? This is a really annoying problem...

 

[mattsaccount]

Try chkdsk or scandisk to ensure the filesystem is in one piece. If neither of these utilities returns an error, I don't know what to suggest

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by: mattsaccount
Try chkdsk or scandisk to ensure the filesystem is in one piece. If neither of these utilities returns an error, I don't know what to suggest

I scanned it with chkdsk. Found nothing. Not sure how to run scandisk in xp.

 

[stnicralisk]

If Deltree doesnt work then I think youre screwed. What does it return when you try deltree?

 

[Abhoth]

I had a similar problem some time back, was a win98 file I had pulled over to my WinXP machine.... Used Delete FXP from over here to kill it... http://www.jrtwine.com/

Hope it does the trick for you.......

 

[skace]

try rmdir from dos

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by: Abhoth
I had a similar problem some time back, was a win98 file I had pulled over to my WinXP machine.... Used Delete FXP from over here to kill it... http://www.jrtwine.com/

Hope it does the trick for you.......

That worked!!! Thanks so much!