Windows 10: unable to delete a folder on a portable HDD

I have folder which said it deleted, but remained....it had zero size....I trid adding some sub folders in the home it may trigger a proper deletion, these sub folders are now behaving in the same way....I loaded up a live Linux cd, it refused to let me delete the folders as they were not empty, or so it said....
tried the portable HDD on a laptop but after trying to delete it and changing permissions to full, it now says the lowest au folder is corrupt or unreadable......seems to be going from bad to worse...

I assume there is way to do this in DOS, but not too familiar with that....

any nd help would be appreciated...
PS I also trid unlocked, chose delete and it said success....but still the folder(s) remain

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Unable to delete a folder

Hi,

Strangely, yesterday I can't even delete the folder Resolve but today it works with the rd command in dos. Windows suprise me all the time !

Thanks

 

Unable to delete a folder

Do you need its parent folder, C:\Users\Adrien\Videos\Resolve ? If not, have you tried deleting it?

 

Hi, you could try Fileassassin (freeware).. but given you've tried a boot CD, I suspect the simplest way wll be to copy what you want off the disk and reformat it.

There's also Emco MoveonBoot (which also deletes on boot) - freeware.

Given you've tried a boot CD, it's unlikely a command prompt - from a boot CD, not from within Windows- will help.

 

thanks will try your suggestions