Well then, leave the external drive turned on, and boot off a Win98 
floppy. If your motherboard supports it you will see the drive as the 
next available FAT16, or 32 drive letter. Any NTFS partitions will 
not be seen.  For example, if you computer has one partition = C, and 
it is formatted as NTFS, then you will see your external FAT32 as the 
C drive. Then try what I previously wrote.

If that doesn't work out, you could try selecting the file while in 
XP logged as Administrator. Then select <Properties>>> Security>>> 
enable all privileges and take ownership. Then holding the shift key 
down, so it doesn't go into the recycle bin, try deleting it.

And if that doesn't work, you may be forced to copy everything on 
that drive, that can copied, over to another drive, and format the 
external drive with the corrupt file. That will solve it, unless, of 
course, something is wrong with the drive. If you format it again I 
would suggest you do it as NTFS.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group
http://www.freepctech.com/rode/


At 01:03 PM 1/21/2007, you wrote:
>yes the folder is on the external drive and I've got about 250 gigs 
>of books and movies on it that I'm slowly getting them on CD and DVD 
>r's. I really don't want to lose all of this. It's labeled E drive.
>
>Lynn Kucera

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