steelie34
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okay here's the deal... i have a SAN device with about 1.2 TBs of used space out of a possible 2.5 TBs.  One folder, in one user's directory, is corrupt and unreadable, and causes the backup software to cry about how it can't access the folder, blah blah.  it's getting really irritating, and the folder can be deleted since the user doesn't need the data anymore.  the problem is, i cannot get rid of that fucker.  i've tried using the various windows delete commands and the unix rm command.  nothing works.  there are two more possible solutions posed on microsoft's support site.  the first is allowing a disk check to run... this isn't going to work though, since the device with the bad folder is connected via iscsi to the host server and the disk check will only let me run it on a reboot.  the second option is to backup all the user data except the bad folder, move the data to another volume, re-format the old volume, and move the data back.  obviously, this is a bit extreme seeing as how i'd have to move 1200 GBs of data from one volume to another, and then back again before anyone else needs to get into their data.  not really the ideal scenario. 

there has to be some other type of deleting or disk checking utility that can fix this.  halp!
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Sydney
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rm -Rf /folder/ doesn't work?
steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6642|the land of bourbon

Sydney wrote:

rm -Rf /folder/ doesn't work?
it does not... can u believe that shit?

it says "the directory is not empty"  even though i'm using those same switches u have there.  serious fucking fail.
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King_County_Downy
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steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6642|the land of bourbon
no go... says "access denied" when i try that.
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King_County_Downy
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+2,791|6858|Seattle

Do you have a way to pull that drive out and slave it to another machine? Running chdsk d: /f (or whatever the drive letter may be) might work and allow you to delete since the file is no longer "in use" or whatever.

Can you boot to BartPE or anything via USB?
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steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6642|the land of bourbon

King_County_Downy wrote:

Do you have a way to pull that drive out and slave it to another machine? Running dskchk d: /f (or whatever the drive letter may be) might work and allow you to delete since the file is no longer "in use" or whatever.

Can you boot to BartPE or anything via USB?
it's a raid 6 array, so it's probably not on just one drive per se.  since the array is controlled via iscsi, it can only be accessed after windows has booted up completely.  i can't really scan it or anything outside of the windows shell, and it sucks because windows tells me i have to reboot to run the chkdsk app.  since it can't access the volume until after it boots, though, it can't scan it.  (probably the most retarded situation ever.)  i don't think any bootable usb devices or bartpe will have the requisite iscsi drivers.

i was really hoping there was some other souped up disk checking utility outside of the windows one.

Last edited by steelie34 (2009-07-14 08:05:35)

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King_County_Downy
shitfaced
+2,791|6858|Seattle

Well, I've tried Unlocker before but never successfully had it work. It's worth a shot though.
Other than that, the only other thing I can think of iis what you'd mentioned before about repartitioning, etc. Sorry man. Hopefully Unlocker works for you
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steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6642|the land of bourbon
unlocker is a sweet program for removing spyware, but i don't think this folder it's locked by the OS.  i think in this case the folder really is just flat-out corrupted and unrecoverable.  thanks for the suggestions... fml
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steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6642|the land of bourbon
aha!!!  for what it's worth, if any of you ever run across a problem like this... chkdsk does work after all.  you have to run it from the command prompt, where it will warn you it has to dismount the volume to scan it.  that's fine, because otherwise it would have to run at reboot, which in my case won't work.  victory! (it took 11 hours to scan 2.5 TBs of space.)
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