Robbie, Please be careful about the use of the words disk, drive and partition (Pet rant especially at Symantec, and others who should know better) I am assuming that you have 2? drives, and the second drive has 3 partitions, normally allocated letters G, H and I by your OS that you boot from the other drive that has partitions that get allocated letters C, D E and F and the partition allocated the letter G contains a directory called "Audio Books" and you cannot delete that directory from the partition
>From your statement that chkdsk ran ok, and no errors were reported I would conclude (assume) that the file allocation and directory structures are valid So I am confused when you say the partition? is 83.83Gb with 18.9Gb used, and no contents a) Are you running with admin authority when you are getting these results b) Have you told explorer to show you all files c) Are you the only user of this system d) or do you mean that the directory is empty XP Home & XP Pro should have no relation to the problem Provided You have not set encryption, or any of the special controls allowed/available under XP on NTFS partitions and you are using the same ID for XP Pro that you used for XP Home, or the XP Pro installation was a clean one rather than an update to XP Home Sp, back to the current situation 1) Is that directory within the root/main/primary directory, or is it in a subdirectory I.E. is it G:\Audio Books 2) Can you rename that directory to something like "aaa" 3) Can you move that directory ( with it's original, or new name) to the root directory 4) Can you create a subdirectory (say "ab") within it, and then delete that new subdirectory 5) Is the partition NTFS, or FAT format 6) In safe mode can you go to that partition (G:), and see the correct/expected files/directories 7) If so can you enter that directory ( not forgetting that you must bound the entry in a "" pair if you are using the cmd interface and entering a CD command Anybody else got any ideas?? JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Deleting a Folder > Jim, > First, thank you for your time. I tried to schedule chkdsc twice, but when > rebooted, the scan did not start. In safe mode I was able to run chkdsc and > the disc checked out ok. The report from the scan gave me vol. size of > 83.83gb, with 18.91gb used and a cluster size of 4. I was able to see that > there are > Audio Books but properties says that the disc is empty, even when I hold the > curser over the file, empty. I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] installed but unable to > figure out the correct path to enter into the delete field. One thing that I > failed to mention was that the G:\ partition created when I had XP Home, am > now running XP Pro with SP2(only). The external drive is a 240 gb > partitioned into G, H and I. All of H & I work fine and can get into all > parts of each. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > Thanks > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:04 AM > Subject: Re: Deleting a Folder > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
