I cannot delete folder I backed up in an external drive and restored to a new Slave. I tried Unlocker but it tells me "Folder is corrupt and cannot be read". I googled for a tip and tried command line after disabling explorer. Nothing happened, not even confirmation in cmd. Windows deleter tells me to run checkdisk but cannot run it in the K:\ drive which is an external drive for my backups.
How can I run chkdsk on K drive?
How do I delete the folder.
The folder contains several sub folders which contain sub folders. Some deleted Ok individually but there are these tough ones that won't delete.
Please help I don't want to reformat.
John
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Take any important stuff off the drive and only format that drive,you did reboot and tried to delete the folders again?
I think,therefore i am a hamster. -
Try rebooting into safe mode. What kind of drive is it? Both Western Digital and Seagate have drive tools that can be freely downloaded.
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start a command prompt and type
CHKDSK K: /F
if it checks ok, try
RD /S K:\FolderNameHere
or
RD /S "K:\Folder Name With Spaces"
Trevor -
Thanks Trevor.
I ran chkdsk on K: and followed up with RD /S K:\BACKUPDDRIVE
That did the trick
I should not have forgotten DOS. It's such a powerful thing to know, we get to love user friendly crap.
Thanks mate.
Thanks to lowellriggsiam and johns0, too.
John
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