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Sounds like your hard drive A) has a physical imperfection on the disc,
and/or B) is on its way out. Backing up your good information might be a
good idea regardless at this point. 

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Thus Spake &quot;Preston Boyington&quot; &lt;PBoyington at polyengineering.com&gt;:
Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:22:15 -0500


&gt; I have a file/folder on my usb drive that is corrupt.  In the file name
&gt; there are squares/numbers/?/+ and other such junk.  I believe that when
&gt; my friend was using the drive he unplugged it while a transfer was in
&gt; progress or maybe his XP machine locked it up.
&gt; 
&gt; My problem is this: I can't delete the file from Windows or Linux.  I
&gt; booted to a Knoppix disk that I had and it barfed when I tried to delete
&gt; the file (gave me a similar error message as Windows, actually).  What
&gt; is the best way to remove this file from the drive?  Worst case I will
&gt; remove all my good information and format it (8GB), but was hoping for a
&gt; better way in case this should happen again.
&gt; 
&gt; Thanks,
&gt; Preston
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