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| Thread ID: 86635 | 2008-01-23 07:36:00 | How to get rid of a corupted file on the desktop | geeves (13252) | Press F1 |
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| 633095 | 2008-01-23 07:36:00 | I have an interesting problem on a windows xp home machine. About 6 months ago my sister sent me a forwarded email via the old xtra webmail. The forwarded email was sent as an attachment and contained a video clip but had no file extension. I saved this email attachment to the desktop renamed as *.eml and opened in the normal way with that most hated programme "outlook express" and all worked normaly. Then went to delete from the desktop and found 2 files there The renamed file deleted ok but the other still had the unmodified name of " FW_ Last day on the job.... " and a size of 0 bytes. In 6 months this has resisted all attempts to delete copy rename etc. All attempts return the error message "cant read source disk" I am positive this is not a mallware and fairly certain there was no mallware on the system when it happened. The file is visible in the documentsand settings/desktop folder from windows and also from bootable linux cds. I havnt tried to remove via linux as I believe there are still issues writing from linux to ntfs. One option that I know will work is a format but this is only an icon on the desktop and apart from takeing up space and making setting up backups a little harder is not worth spending the time needed for a full reinstall etc. any thoughts please alan |
geeves (13252) | ||
| 633096 | 2008-01-23 07:39:00 | Have you tried ccleaner from Wainiu's sig? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 633097 | 2008-01-23 07:41:00 | Welcome to PressF1. You should be able to delete that file using the Linux CD as you are not writing to NTFS with it. Otherwise, a program called MoveOnBoot (www.snapfiles.com) has been recommend here many times. Let us know how you get on. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 633098 | 2008-01-23 07:42:00 | ccleaner has already been tryed at the advise of a friend. It dis a marvelous job of speeding up my system with its registry tweaks but nothing for this problem thanks |
geeves (13252) | ||
| 633099 | 2008-01-23 07:48:00 | hi jen I havent tryed move on boot but have tryed killbox which sounds virtualy the same. The file isnt locked by an application. I think it is in the ntfs table but not actually on the disk. re the linux idea. I thought the problems that can occur with linux and ntfs happed when deleting files. A deletion is still writing to the disk isnt it? thanks |
geeves (13252) | ||
| 633100 | 2008-01-23 07:54:00 | You should be fine still if you are using a recent Linux release. What one do you have? | Jen (38) | ||
| 633101 | 2008-01-23 08:05:00 | I have ubuntu 7.10 from the latest pcworld and pclinuxos which was downloaded about 3 months ago. this featured on the august apc mag which one would you recomend? thanks |
geeves (13252) | ||
| 633102 | 2008-01-23 08:16:00 | Either of those two should be fine. It wouldn't hurt to do a backup of essential files before hand *just in case*. I've deleted/move/saved to NTFS under Linux ages ago back when NTFS support was considered more flakey. NTFS support is much more robust and mature nowadays. | Jen (38) | ||
| 633103 | 2008-01-23 08:24:00 | You can try this- may work - start the PC in safe mode, press F8 on startup, select safe mode, when you go to log in use administrator. Double click " My Computer" double click the HD ( normally C) go to Documents and settings / ( persons User Account Name) / Desktop - locate the offending files, right click delete. This sometimes works. Reboot as normal |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 633104 | 2008-01-23 08:25:00 | jen will try this and come back with the answer tomorrow thanks wainuitech thanks for the advise Ive already tryed this though. |
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