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I have a folder on my secondary hard drive that I created some time ago that had or was suppose to have 30 jpeg images. The folder is empty (no bytes, etc). I have tried to delete the folder in regular and in safe mode but to no avail and also to move it, and/or rename but I keep getting the same message that the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Unlocker does not work either. Any suggestions?
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What does chkdsk say? Does chkdsk with repair option repair it?
Kees
Have never worked with chkdsk before. First try using command prompted didn't do anything because it was for the main drive, but a little more googling indicated that I could right click on the the secondary drive where the problem was and click on properties and work from there using the repair option. That took care of the problem.
This shouldn't occur if you always use "safely remove hardware". But an external disk inherently is somewhat more error prone than an internal one.
That's why we recommend to NEVER use an external disk as the only place to store data you don't want to lose. It's good to transfer data between computers, and it's OK to have as one of your backup devices.
Kees
On XP or later, it shouldn't be necessary to use safely remove hardware, unless you went deep into some settings for the USB controller and changed the default mounting method. The default config is to sacrifice speed for the convenience of being able to simply remove the drive at any point it's not being accessed.
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