Can't Delete Certain File

[thedoors27]

I have a folder in my music, an album folder I dont want there, only iit wont let me delete it at all, the first error message I get is "cannot access etc" and the second is "the file may not be on the hard drive"

Someone help eek

 

[Ultravis]

have you tried running scan disk first?

 

[thedoors27]

I have windows xp home and it doesnt have scan disk, not to my knowledge anyway.

 

[Cromewell]

sure it does. in my computer right click on the HDD and pick properties, then goto the tools tab. It is called error checking

 

[thedoors27]

WOW! lol thanks for that info, you learn something new everyday...me and my friend have thought since xp came out "wow they got rid of scan disk" DOH!

 

[thedoors27]

That hasnt worked either I have tried a program which is sposed to delete the file still no luck....I read that I can delete the file in ms dos? The file I want to delete is in the "my music" folder. Can anyone help?

 

[Cromewell]

if you have a DOS boot disk you can try it provided your HDD is FAT32 not NTFS. if you just were going to use the command line utility in windows you will most likely have the same problem. when you ran scan disk did you scan for bad sectors as well?

 

[Praetor]

I have a folder in my music, an album folder I dont want there, only iit wont let me delete it at all, the first error message I get is "cannot access etc

Try deleting from safe mode