Have you tried deleting it in DOS Mode. Start/Run type command.com. Type 
X: and press enter where X is the drive letter of the Maxtor One Touch. 
If the file you want to delete is in the root directory, type del 
xxx.xxx and press enter with xxx.xxx being the file name to be deleted 
and leave a space between del and the file name. If the file is in some 
other directory you will have to use CD yyy and press enter where yyy is 
the directory name that you want to go to and leave a space between CD 
and the directory name. You can dig down into the directory tree one 
directory at a time. From anyplace in the directory tree you can find 
out what is in the directory by typing dir/p and press enter. This will 
show the directory contents one screen at a time and you press any key 
to go to the next page. To get out of the DOS Mode, type exit and press 
enter.

I hope this helps. If you are already familiar with DOS, I'm sorry to 
have you read all of the foregoing. Also, I would run a complete virus 
scan just in case.

Tom Mayer

LKucera wrote:
> Dear List,
>     Recently I've been downloading a lot of divx movies from Usenet and to save space on my laptop I moved the avi to my Maxtor One Touch, this happened around Nov 16 and I don't know what I did but the file somehow got corrupted and it will not delete. I've tried rebooting into Safe Mode and but it won't let me delete it, I've tried cut and paste into the recycle bin, no go. At first the file was Iceage.avi then it turned into an unknown file titled <.  When trying to delete it I would get filename or directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. I've tried defrag but it won't let me complete it, I've tried Chekdisc and nothing happens, and now I have a bunch of files that are labeled gobbly gook, strange symbols, some of the folders are semi-transparent and I really want to get rid of this folder since it has over 170 GB and I at a loss. One more thing its using fat 32.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Win XP
> Dell Inspiron 8600
> 524 Ram
> 60 GB harddrive
>
> Maxtor is 300 GB external harddrive with 40 GBs of room left
>
> Thank you,
> Lynn Kucera
>
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