Undeletable 'empty' folder showing as 135GB!

[dannyb]

Hello Everyone,

There is a folder on my data key that was created at the same time as 18 others in February that will not delete!

The key is 1.8 GB in size; however, the folder in question is showing in the properties window as 135GB with 129 files? The folder is absolutely empty and it has never been populated.

I have tried changing the name to delete it with no joy!

When I try and delete the file windows 7 states that the file is too big (135 GB) to delete and has system files in it - it's empty?

When I click skip in the delete folder window, the file name (which shows in the delete window wrongly as oriental letters and numbers) changes every time delete is clicked?

For reference: I had to do a restore the other day after the Microsoft updates below were followed by the blue screen of death and a PC shut down - for the 1st time ever:

KB976002
KB976422
KB980408
KB975496

That said, the date of folder in question is 22/2/2010, 4.54pm. This will not change although I have modified the name tonight.

Can anyone please help me delete this and tell me what it is? This PC is three months old and it was purchased as I down loaded a virus to my laptop.

Hopefully, this is not another!

Thanks.

 

[Jacee]

What was the name of the folder? If you go into safe mode, does it still say empty?

 

[chev65]

The post in the link below seems to have a fix for this problem.

[MSUPDATE KB980408]Warning To All Win7 x64 Users. - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

 

[dannyb]

Folder Name....

Thanks for the response!

In brief: The folder was one of 18 set up by me to house presentations from uni tutorials; the folder was just called - Week18. Last night I changed the name to undeletable to try to delete it - no joy!

This is a crucial week for handing in work at uni so, I am reluctant to mess about in safe mode unitil all my work is in; so, I will try to delete the file in safe mode in a week and get back to you guys. I am really grateful for any help though.

For some reason, I think that the folder is trouble!

I do not understand how safe mode may help, but I will give it a go. Isn't it restricted access? This folder states that there are 129 ("non existant") system files inside?

I will also follow the link above and check out the solution there.

I did Google the issue first and saw a mention of using the safe mode method in a post - I always prefer to get some advice though first!

Any other ideas - please post; I will get back with the results of using safe mode too.

Thank you.

 

[Jacee]

You need to get back to us following this reply from you (bolded observations by me):

In brief: The folder was one of 18 set up by me to house presentations from uni tutorials; the folder was just called - Week18. Last night I changed the name to undeletable to try to delete it - no joy!

This is a crucial week for handing in work at uni so, I am reluctant to mess about in safe mode unitil all my work is in; so, I will try to delete the file in safe mode in a week and get back to you guys. I am really grateful for any help though.

 

[Ztruker]

Save everything on the flash drive you want to keep, then format it. That should get rid of everything. Then copy the saved data back.