Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 08/29/06 16:37

cwdjrxyz wrote:
> Brian Cryer wrote:
>> "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote in message

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>> 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...


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Jonathan
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