Computer Science Canada How to delete corrupted files? |
| Author: | jcollins1991 [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | How to delete corrupted files? |
I've got some corrupted files on my computer and lovely old Windows 7 is being a bitch about fixing it. I've tried deleting them normally, through command line, running chkdsk, and none of it works (either errors or hangs). Is there anything in Windows 7 to force delete corrupted files?? |
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| Author: | bbi5291 [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How to delete corrupted files? |
Try Unlocker. Or try deleting the file from the Cygwin command line --- apparently it's able to do some crazy things you normally can't do in Windows. |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:How to delete corrupted files? |
If all else fails, pop in a LiveCD of some version of linux with NTFS support; I've found that they can delete things that NTFS can't handle, such as files named "." and "..". You can make these files in Windows, you just can't delete them. |
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