Windows 10: Chkdsk deleted my Windows folder. Can I restore it?

I have two hard drives connected where both have windows 10 installed. When I boot into one of them, it did a check for consistency type scan on my secondary hard drive which contain a separate Windows 10 OS. When I tried to log into that one it just shows a black screen.I viewed the contents of the drive and it shows a Windows file with 0kb. Then I used a data recovery program called Getdataback and it found my Windows folder inside the found.000 directory and it was renamed dir0000.chk. Here's a screenshot:My idea is to simply copy the dir0000.chk folder to the root directory and rename it W

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Unable to delete a folder - Invalid folder name


Suggestion:

1. Run chkdsk x: /r to make sure that there's no HD corruption.
   x: is the drive containing the folder you want to delete.
2. Try to delete the folder again. If still does not work, go to step 3.
3. Download: Download - Linux Mint and create a bootable USB using: Rufus - Create bootable USB
4. Boot up with Linux Mint and try to delete the folder again.
   NOTE: Unlike WinPE. Linux does not have any Windows permission imposed to it so it is easier to delete.

 

Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

C windows installer folder - Delete?

He can do symbolic link redirection and move the files in it to a different location. *Wink
Better try it out in a virtual of first. Just a suggestion.

Like:
First move everything in c:\windows\installer to d:\installercache
Then delete c:\windows\installer folder
Then type this in command mode as admin
mklink /d c:\windows\installer d:\installercache

Removing those installer files is a bad idea. it might prevent you from updating or uninstalling apps.