Mystery folder that wont delete

[Ryan Lass]

I have a folder that magically appeared a month or so ago, and I can't delet it. It is "E:\z\sp2", it is the sp2 part that is causing me the problems. It created the folder z and then the subfolder sp2. I can open up z to look at sp2 but I can't open up the sp2 folder. I looked at the properties of the folder and there are no files in it and 0 bytes inside. I can't move anything in to the folder or I get the whole "access denied make sure the disk is not write protected" thing. If I try to delete it I get the same. So thinking maybe something was using a hidden file in the folder I renamed the z folder so whatever was using it couldn't find it to use it. It let me do this and then I rebooted. Everything worked when I started back up, so there isn't anything using something in the folder because it wouldn't have been able to find it since I renamed it. (correct me if I'm wrong) Still couldn't delete it same thing. So I looked up similar things on forums, and they said to use cmd and end all explorer processes. I did that and cmd can't find the folder. I tried the same in safe mode, to no avail. I tried to change it from a read only file, it says access denied but prompts me to ignore it or not. I  clicked ignore and it shows that it isn't read only anymore. So I try to delete it, no luck. I open properties up and it's back to read only. It is the partiition with 80 gig worth of media on it so formatting isn't a viable option and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything , aside from my brain. Any ideas?

Thank you

[OneTimeSaver]

It sounds like you might have a  corrupt disk, to fix the problem you need to right click on the drive in my computer, select properties then tools, click on the button check the disk for errors and select the two checkboxes before hitting start


it will most-likely ask to 'dismount' the volume, its your choice but it means lock it out so nothing else can open or modify any files during the check, it will return to normal once it has finished, i recommend hitting yes


if it asks that it cannot complete the disk check at the moment or something, do you want to check the disk at boot up, select yes and will check the disk when you next boot windows


if this does not solve the problem email me back at ant_coe_Email Removed, it would be great to find out if the file system on that drive is fat32 or ntfs.


best of luck
Tony