Help won't let me delete a directory

[Jackie Lamorie]

I tried a program for backup. Don't know what it did. It never made a backup
that was correct.

The problem is now there is a directory on my F drive which is an external
hard drive that I can not delete. There are 3 directories under it that I
can't either. The message I get is "Error 0x80070570 The file or directory
is corrupted and unreadable. I have ran chkdsk on the drive, I ran defrag.
Nothing will let me get rid of this directory. Any suggestions.

Thanks for any and all help.

Jackie

 

[TaurArian]

Use at yor own risk:
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm

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|I tried a program for backup. Don't know what it did. It never made a backup
| that was correct.
|
| The problem is now there is a directory on my F drive which is an external
| hard drive that I can not delete. There are 3 directories under it that I
| can't either. The message I get is "Error 0x80070570 The file or directory
| is corrupted and unreadable. I have ran chkdsk on the drive, I ran defrag.
| Nothing will let me get rid of this directory. Any suggestions.
|
| Thanks for any and all help.
|
| Jackie
|

 

[Jackie Lamorie]

Hi There,

So far I have went to it clicked I said delete. That is when the error
message comes. I went to safe mode but because it is an external drive it
doesn't show up when I do that. I ran chkdsk and have defragged. It just
won't go away. Any help you can be I really appreciate.

Thanks
Jackie

 

[Lester Stiefel]

Hi There,

So far I have went to it clicked I said delete. That is when the error
message comes. I went to safe mode but because it is an external drive it
doesn't show up when I do that. I ran chkdsk and have defragged. It just
won't go away. Any help you can be I really appreciate.

Thanks
Jackie

Do you have any other data stored on that drive. If not,
try formatting the drive, and see what comes up. If the
drive is a USB drive, try rerouting the cable so it doesn't
go through any other cables such as power (that can corrupt
data transfer really easily).

 

[Jackie Lamorie]

Hi, Thanks for your reply,

Ok, What I have is a Maxtor 100 gig external harddrive. Not quite sure how
to format it. Do I just go to computer and then click format and then it
should get rid of all those undeletable files and be ready to use again. I
worry a little bit of knowledge can make me dangerous. I got in to this
trouble because I thought I know more than I do.

If what I say above makes sense let me know and I will format. will not do
anything till I hear.

Thanks for your help.

Jackie