Corrupted Files

[X96 Web Design]

I have an External Hard Drive, but somehow a bunch of files got corrupted , and it won't let me delete them...

I've tried opening root terminal and using the rm /media/ExternalHD/My_Folder command, but to no avail.

And using fdisk won't work either, I get this:

last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 40777
You will not be able to write the partition table.

Unable to read /media/ExternalHD

Can anyone help? Do I have to hook it up to Windows and reformat it?

Thanks,
X96

[Twey]

rm won't work with a folder; it's for files. You probably want rm -rf.

[X96 Web Design]

I put in this: rm -rf /media/ExternalHD/my_folder, Then I get a whole bunch of these:

rm: cannot remove `/media/ExternalHD/my_folder/my_file': Input/output error

Thanks anyway, though...

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