Deleting a corrupt file (cyclic redundancy check)

[Kirsle]

I have a few corrupted files on my hard drive which can't be opened, moved, renamed, or deleted. Any of these operations comes up with a "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

I've tried deleting them through command prompt too. If I type the full name of the file to delete, I get the same error. On "del *.*" I get this error for every file which can't be deleted.

I also can't delete the folder containing the files or the folder containing that folder. How can I get rid of these files?

 

[kjv1611]

Maybe it's just a bad drive, and those physical locations on the disk just are not responding any more.

One way to try something different and see would be to run a liveCD version of Linux (such as Gnoppix) and using the Shell command, mount a Windows partition to allow you to change the Windows files. Then, if you still cannot get rid of them, it'd definitely be a hardware issue.