cannot delete folder, access denied

[beppe005]

I have a folder called Folder with three subfolders in it "dxu", "cpu",
"vst", they originated from an unzipping process. My antivirus, before
unzipping, noticed no viruses.
The three subfolderd cannot be accessed; if I call property from the folder
Folder it says there are 0 (zero) bytes.
I can move Folder, can rename it, but I cannot delete it or move to the
wastebin.

I tried running in safemode, running the DOS shell and running the Safemode
DOS (I know it is not the correct term, it is when you press F8 and choose
the line commands option. In DOS I used the commands: delete, erase, remove
with the flags /s/f and similar, but it says: "access denied".

Once it happened to me something similar, but I managed to delete the
unwanted folder by deleting it immediately after rebooting, just as soon as
the computer was redy to take commands, and I did it under the windows
shell; this time I cannot delete it.

I use windows xp home edition.

I tried to look for answers on the Internet, but with no success so far, I
hope someone knows if this problem can be solved.
I believe part of the problem is that the folder is "0 byte", but I am not
sure.

PS: I use win xp in Italian, tried to translate to my best the tecnical
terms, I hope that if they are not correct at least they are reasonably
understandable.

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Michael Burk [MSFT]]

Boot in to Safe Mode, run chkdsk. This ought to make sure that everything
flagged as a folder is accessible as a folder. From there, open a command
prompt and delete the folders by using delete with one letter of the name
replaced with the ? wildcard, for instance:

del cp?

This should work for you. If not, post again.

--
Michael Burk

Longhorn Shell
http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn
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[beppe005]

Dear Michael Burk

Thank you very much for your prompt reply, but unfortunately it didn't work,
the folders are still there.
The message is still "access denied".

Can I try something else?

Thank you.