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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 08/30/06 05:10
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> cwdjrxyz wrote:
> > Brian Cryer wrote:
> >> "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote in message
>
> <snip>
>
> >> 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.
> >
>
> For your situation Windows may be locking the file thinking some process
> is currently accessing it. Have you tried chkdsk from the Recovery
> Console? Since in Recovery Console your in a pseudo-DOS it can solve
> such locking issues. Another option is to slave the drive to another
> system and check the disk that way...
Thanks for the 2 suggestions. I don't have another suitable system to
slave the drive to. However using the Recovery Console likely will be
possible.
I have started looking at the registry, and I have found something
interesting there. Looking at
HKEY_Current_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603\ there
are 4 key entries with numbers as names, all of type REG_SZ and with
data values of the type MOVIE.mpg, .mpg, MOVIE, and .vob . However a
search of the C-drive turns up only the Ghost file "MOVIE" of zero byte
size. There was a MOVIE.mpg file at one time when the file was being
processed to convert to .vob and other DVD files, and the computer
crashed when doing this. I am considering deleting the MOVIE.mpg, .mpg,
and .vob keys one at a time to see if this helps. Of course I will
backup up the registry and set a restore point just before doing this
each time. It appears that the icon for the ghost file is under control
of the MOVIE key. The MOVIE.mpg key might be pointing to some other
data used by defrag that was not deleted after recovery from the crash,
so the defrag report still thinks it has a 4 GB movie file, but of
course fails to defrag it if it is not there. This is just a wild
guess.
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