Billericay Pete wrote:
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> I've been ripping CD's to disk. During this process, there are 2 folders
> that have files in them, I can listen to them, but 'properties' shows
> that the folders contain 0 bytes.
> If I try and move either of these folders or delete them I get the
> message that the folder is no longer in that location, but I can still
> play the files inside these folders! I've tried renaming them, but as
> they aren't where they're supposed to be - I can't.
>
> So I thought I'd run a disk check on my D: drive
> The disk check completed after nearly 4 hours and found no problems (I
> also request bad sector checks) there was no on-screen instruction as to
> what to do when the process finished, so after several minutes I pressed
> the on/off switch to force a re-boot
> Then it started the disk check again, but can be interrupted by pressing
> the Enter key within 10 secs.
> I pressed the enter key - no response - I thought that as I have a
> bluetooth kbd/mouse this may be the problem
> so I connected a wireless USB keyboard and re-booted - still the Enter
> key has no effect and the disk check was initialized again
> I do not have a wired keyboard so I can't seem to be able to perform a
> normal boot, my only option seems to be to run disk check forever as it
> starts automatically every time I boot
>
> I tried going into setup on booting (so my Bluetooth kbd worked at this
> stage) - no options there to help
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can get out of this loop please and
> secondary, any ideas as to where these folders are - I have searched for
> files within the folders but advanced search shows 0 results. If I
> search for the folders themselves, search shows that they are where I
> thought they are, but the system does not think they are there .
>
> Many thanks
> Pete
You will need to let it run to completion...
just walk away and come back a few hours later...
I've worked on machine that required a number of hours to run to
completion..but once done, all problems were solved