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bad dir/file from scandisk

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by shiny_topadm

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How can I delete an entry (apparantly from Scandisk) that scandisk won't "fix"? It reports: C:\DIR00001\55555555.555 is damaged and unusable, but can't fix it. In fact, scandisk for windows says there's not enough memory (on this 64Mb machine) even with no other apps running. It won't let me delete it either. The machine also now seems to be running slowly. Virtual memory problem?, no other indications of HD trouble. All suggestions are welcome. thanks

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by dmiles

Machine running slowly could be caused by the Virtual memory.The applications could be running in the background,and loading on startup,locate the antivirus program and disable it,push the control+alt+delete and see what programs are running that you can disable.Use the emergency repair disk and reload from the A:drive should reinstall the
files.

by jlessick

If you are sure there is nothing there that you want you can DELTREE DIR00001. That should remove the directory even if it has damaged files in it. Also try Norton Disk Doctor, it seems to do a better job than Scandisk.

by shiny_topadm

Don't have Disk Doctor, but it might help, I've triedto run scandisk in DOS, can't deltree, can't RD, nothing works.this is odd!!

by bge1

Have you tried booting into DOS and runnung scandisk? You should also be able to delete the file while in DOS instead of Windows.

by mckaytech

Unless it is sucking up all your drive space, I think the file is a red herring and not directly related to the memory situation. If it's not taking up a lot of space on your hard drive, I wouldn't worry about it for the moment. You might try booting to DOS, using attrib -r to re-set any read-only or system attributes and then seeing if you can delete it.

However, the memory situation is worrisome and I would be thinking hardware failure, virus, corrupted pagefile or corrupted OS.

paul

by michaeljclark

You keed to be in DOS mode. Assuming win98 press Ctrl (and keep pressed just before the PC boots into win98 and select "Command Prompt Only" option from the list

I have found this works on countless occasions

by homeshop

This is caused by Norton Anti-virsus with data files dated 6/16 and 6/19. Get the newest data files and download the utility program from them called ndf32.exe to remove the dir00001 directory and files.

by shiny_topadm

Thank you...gee, I've never been first with a problem before!!, but that's what it was and Symantec's utility fixed it, including boosting "free space" from 112 Mb to 2.5 Gb available. I guess that's what made the machine run "slow"!

by msillers

I've experienced similar results when running scandisk on a damaged file system. Especially troublesome was that the computer insisted it had not been shut down properly and ran scandisk on boot. The only way I found to get out of this situation wasto back my hard drive up , reformat, then restore although third party utilities such as Norton may be effective.

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