John King said:
Is there a way to isolate a damaged file that when its folder is accessed,
causes the Windows Explorer to 'collapse' thereby rendering it unavailable.
Any help on this will be much appreciated.
You mean as soon as you use Windows Explorer to open the directory
where the file lives, you get a crash? Then there may or may not be
anything wrong with the file but there's certainly something wrong
with the directory.
When WE displays the contents of the directory, it does not open any
of the files. It reads the directory, which tells it the name, size
and dates of all the files in the directory. The directory is
basically a list which is maintained quite separately from any of the
files in it. NTFS and FAT have *very* different directory structures.
The first thing I would do here is to run SCANDISK (right-click the
drive, choose Properties, Tools, run Error Checking), and hope that
fixes the problem.
