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I have a folder|files that reports "corrupted and unreadable" when I try to open or delete. Neither Unlocker, Assessins nor GiPo@Utilities will remove it|them either directly or upon reboot.

It is likely Acronis created the folder|files when I tried to do a File not partition recovery.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance

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Hmmm.. if they cannot do it, then it is possible that the files' entries in the MFT are corrupted. Try running chkdsk /r as a precursor to deletion.
A tool to enable you to do all this outside of the windows environment is NTFS4DOS.exe. It contains chkdsk and other commands, including /del for files. The pgm was originally an Avira offering, but they discontinued support. It's still out there. The original pgm creates a bootable floppy, but there are bootable cd and UFD versions.

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