"philo" <philo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Billericay Pete wrote: Quote:
>> 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
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> You will need to let it run to completion...
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> just walk away and come back a few hours later...
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> I've worked on machine that required a number of hours to run to
> completion..but once done, all problems were solved Thanks for your reply - I did allow it to run to completion, around 4
hours - it said something to the effect - Disk Check complete - no errors
found - and there it sat until I rebooted, then off it went again on a disk
check
Thanks again
Pete