Unable to delete

Kaad_g · #1 11-28-2004, 08:51 PM

My Power supply went south taking my CD drive, Hard drive, and floppy drive with it. My Secondary drive survived. I used the primary drive from my other "Identical" computer and simply did a "plug-N-play" in my current system. In other words I did not format and reinstall everything on the primary drive, I just plugged in the hard drive and started using it as my primary drive.

Now every time I download an application and try to launch it from the secondary drive, it says that it's corrupted or has missing files. When I copy that same application to my primary drive it launches with no problems.

This is all leading up to my main problem.

Whenever I delete or move a file from my secondary drive, the process seems to work fine, but when I reboot the computer, the files are back again! Everything on the secondary drive is "read only" and I am unable to Uncheck it. (Actually I can uncheck it, but every time I do uncheck it and close the dialog box, I then recheck the properties and "read only" is checked again!). It may always have been read only for all I know but I never had a problem before I put in the new primary drive.

I have all admin rights and I've searched this forum and found similar problems but no solutions.

Any Ideas?

Kaad_g

F_Porsche · #2 11-29-2004, 03:54 AM

I've had a similar problem. Try running scandisk on the secondary drive. There might be a file system problem.

Kaad_g · #3 11-29-2004, 06:06 PM

Scandisk does not exist in XP Pro, so I tried "chkdsk" which didn't seem to find any problems. When I run Norton Disk Doctor to diagnose the disk, A little yellow triangle pops up on the Taskbar telling me that I have a

"Window -corrupt file System volume information\-restore{21BF-466E-1261-4488-88FF1-2F87E55CC0693}\RP115\change.log."

Then when NDD gets to the "Checking file structure" it goes forever without accomplishing anything, and I have to "Restart" the computer to stop it.

No luck so far.

Kaad_g

F_Porsche · #4 11-30-2004, 01:44 AM

Sorry about the scandisk part of my response. I meant to type checkdisk. Just to make sure, are you scanning the sceondary drive from the primary with Norton Disk Doctor? When I had that similar problem, I scanned the drive using Tweak xp-pro. It did find an error, but did'nt say what it was. after that, I set the hard drive back to primary, And everything worked fine. If you have, Then try running an Anti-Virus program. Some viruses can do that kind of damage to a hard drive.

But I doubt this is a software related problem. Check the Manufactuor of the Hard Drives web site and see if they know a solution.

Kesser · #5 11-30-2004, 04:30 PM

Why does it seem to be living in system restore I wonder? Have you tried turning it off and on again and then trying to access the data?

Kaad_g · #6 11-30-2004, 06:41 PM

I set the restore "monitoring" off of my secondary drive but that didn't fix my problem. I also tried Tweak XP Pro, but that couldn't help me either. I think what has happened here is that when my primary drive went south, so did the original administrator.....anyone think that may be the problem?

Kaad_g

F_Porsche · #7 11-30-2004, 06:58 PM

That may be the problem, kaad_g. The Hard Drive might be having problems writing and copying files to other hdd's. I think you should get it looked at by a repairman.

Gene K · #8 11-30-2004, 09:07 PM

Most Hard Drive manufacturers have utilities to diagnose/check their disks. Check there to see if one is available to test yours. Maxtor, for one, has them.

Kaad_g · #9 12-01-2004, 10:18 PM

Samsung doesn't have a utility for my particular drive model, they refer me to a third party source for that; and I have to purchase the program to use it.

I think I'll just have to live with this problem until I can copy all the important files, then reformat the drive.

Kaad_g