Re: Directory Name Invalid - XP

In article <4624e9fe$0$8759$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roger
Cain
rogerspamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
I'm running XP Pro and have a number of folders in root of the type found00n
containing zero length files of the type file000n.chk which cannot be
deleted. I think these were generated by chkdsk.

I can do no Windows operations on these things as an access to the file000n
items always gives "Directory Name Invalid".


Are you using FAT32 or NTFS? ISTR this could happen if you had too many
files in the root folder with FAT32, but I'm not sure that was ever the
case with XP. Otherwise have you tried running checkdisk again? It
could be that the MFT entries for the files are corrupt.
You haven't got a large disk LBA problem, have you?
.

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