Took a few hours to run but this worked! The file is gone. Thanks so much for your help!

Yeah, I think the reason chkdsk isn't working on reboot is because when the computer reboots it does not recognize the external hard drive until it is unplugged and plugged back in (though I'm not...

The file is about 300 MB. Just tried everything with the same results on a different computer.



No luck.

I'm puzzled.

The only option I found in HijackThis was "delete on reboot" which did not work because the external HD is not immediately recognized on reboot.

Unfortunately this did not work either. I received a message saying that the file was corrupted or unreadable and that I should run chkdsk.

This produced the same results as chkdsk /f

Today I was copying a file from my laptop onto my USB external hard drive when the transfer froze and I had to cancel it. The file is still intact on my laptop but the unfinished copy created on my...