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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 08/29/06 16:00
Brian Cryer wrote:
> "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote in message
> > Ghosts can happen on a computer as well as a server. You only have a
> > ghost icon. I have a ghost movie on my computer. The computer crashed
> > for some unknow reason when I was processing an about 4 GB movie mpg
> > file. After starting again, there was a directory with a movie file
> > where it should be. However the movie file was of unknown type and of
> > zero size. The computer would not allow you to delete either the
> > directory or the ghost movie and would say that the file could not be
> > found on the HD. Renaming, etc did not help. I am on Windows XP with
> > all of the updates. A system restore did not help. When you clean up
> > the C HD and defrag, everything defrags except several fragments for
> > the ghost movie, and the computer still thinks it has an about 4 GB
> > file stored on the HD. The only sure way I know to solve this problem
> > is to completely erase the HD and reinstall everything. I am not that
> > desperate to solve the problem which is doing no harm. Of course, on
> > the server you use, you likely do not have this option unless you own
> > the server. Hopefully someone else has had experience with ghosts on a
> > server or computer and can describe how they solved the problem.
> Did you try running chkdsk? Start > Run "chkdsk c: /f"
> Hopefully you should be able to delete your ghost movie after that.
Thanks for the suggestion, but running chkdsk did not help. I also
earlier ran an XP more complete check of the C disc with options
checked to scan for bad sectors and fix if possible. This takes much
longer than chkdsk, but it found no problems. I earlier tried 2
programs to remove bad files, but they did not work either. I have
searched the C drive for files with words that likely would be in the
unreachable file, if present, but found nothing. The icon for the ghost
video file is the one with multicolored dots that you get for file
types that Windows does not know. This often happens, and you just have
to select the program to open the file. However this file is given as
zero bytes and the computer just tells you it can not find the file and
will not let you open it, change it, erase it, rename it, or anything
else I have tried.. On the other hand if you defrag, the report tells
you that the ghost video that is considerably fragmented is about 4 GB,
about the normal size for a video to be burned to a single layer DVD. I
have leared to live with this as it causes no problems other than
wasting some space if a file is really there, but every now and then I
think of something new and try it.
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