[ale] "undeleteable" file

[Christopher R. Curzio]

What's the error?

Sounds like your hard drive A) has a physical imperfection on the disc,
and/or B) is on its way out. Backing up your good information might be a
good idea regardless at this point. 

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Thus Spake "Preston Boyington" <PBoyington at polyengineering.com>:
Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:22:15 -0500


> I have a file/folder on my usb drive that is corrupt.  In the file name
> there are squares/numbers/?/+ and other such junk.  I believe that when
> my friend was using the drive he unplugged it while a transfer was in
> progress or maybe his XP machine locked it up.
> 
> My problem is this: I can't delete the file from Windows or Linux.  I
> booted to a Knoppix disk that I had and it barfed when I tried to delete
> the file (gave me a similar error message as Windows, actually).  What
> is the best way to remove this file from the drive?  Worst case I will
> remove all my good information and format it (8GB), but was hoping for a
> better way in case this should happen again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Preston
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