Acronis Dubbed Some Files or Directory Entries So I now Cannot Delete the Folders
I've been fighting with ATIH2010 updated a few days ago for what seems an eternity. First I had trouble creating an incremental backup. Once I solved that problem, I tried to recover files into a newly created directory on my main hard drive. The recovery ran for a scant few minutes then failed because there was not sufficient space allocated on the hard drive. Somehow in installing WinXP on a brand new drive it did not use all the available space on the drive in its NTFS allocations and I didn't discover this until the file recovery failed. It took 2 failed recoveries before I discovered the problem; so I now have 2 rather large folders that will not delete wasting space on my HDD.
After about an hour futzing with a partition manager, it now appears that I have all of the hard drive - except the Acronis Secure Zone, more about which I want to know but will save for another post - allocated to one partition that contains the OS and the file system. I also seem to have a complete backup with one incremental on my WD Passport USB HDD.
I've run ckhdsk /f on the drive which said it fixed bad records but I still could not delete the corrupted files/folders. I've also run the ntfs fix which said it corrected them but still they will not delete. When I look at the HDD Properties it shows 93GB in use and 239 Available. The folders that are bad, that I want to be rid of, contain 23GB and 56GB which is most of the space used on the HDD
Can anyone tell me how to go about getting rid of folders with corrupted entries - apparently created when the Acronis recovery process failed due to low disk space. I don't want to have to format the drive and start over but will do so as a last resort.
At this point I'm feeling snake bitten. I don't know whether or not I can trust the Acronis backup data on my Passport USB HDD. If Acronis created corrupted files on my system, and cannot tell me how to get rid of them, I'm distrustful of Acronis software.
TIA
You can try this as a last ditch effort. It usally works. create files (enven 1 byte notepad files) in some other place with the same names as the corrpupted files and then backup these. Then do a file restore of these files to a NEW location, and spsecify the new location to be whereever the old files are, specify to overwrite existing files.
This should clean up the metadata entries and allow you to delete the files when all else fails.
You'll want to do this from the recovery CD so that ATI can force the metadata changes. You coul dprobably do this with any file backup/restore program.
Also note that if your hdisk is throwing up bad sectors, it is very liekly that it will continue to do so with increasing frequency, corrupting the system to iever greater degrees each time until the hdisk just quits. If, after having run chkdsk /f you decide to keep using this hdisk, be sure you have at least one good backup made before anything sectors go bad. Otherwise, you could restore what is merely an image of a corrupted file system -- sometimes the newest backup isn't the one you want.