Can't delete doomf.wad

[nero]

Getting crazy amounts of freezes and data aborts on my iPod nano 1G. Just spent some time on the forum and see that it's no coincidence that the same file that I can't delete is one that's proven to cause these issues.

I used the utility and tried stable, archived and current builds, none of which altered the result.

I'm going to try 3.5.1 now and see what happens.

Nonetheless, I'd like to know how I can delete the file. I've tried Unlocker which never shows it having a handle, renaming it in Windows explorer (XP SP3), which it let's me do but then still doesn't allow me to delete it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[AlexP]

If you can't just delete it through your file browser, I'd try a disk check - chkdsk in Windows, fsck.vat in linux

[nero]

here's what I get:

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K:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume NERO created 12/14/2006 11:21 AM
Volume Serial Number is 4C62-08E8
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Windows found errors on the disk, but will not fix them
because disk checking was run without the /F (fix) parameter.
\rockbox Errors in . and/or .. corrected.
The \Music\Tesla - Psychotic Supper\05 - Song && Emotion.mp3 entry contains a no
nvalid link.
The size of the \Music\Tesla - Psychotic Supper\05 - Song && Emotion.mp3 entry i
s not valid.
\rockbox\database_0.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be t
runcated.
\rockbox\database_idx.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be
 truncated.
Removing nonvalid long folder entry from \rockbox...
\rockbox\database_4.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be t
runcated.
\rockbox\database_5.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be t
runcated.
The \rockbox\doom3\1doomf.wad1 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \rockbox\doom3\1doomf.wad1 entry is not valid.
File and folder verification is complete.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 693949 corrected.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? y
348160 bytes in 8 recoverable files.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

3,997,876,224 bytes total disk space.
      241,664 bytes in 36 hidden files.
      421,888 bytes in 98 folders.
3,367,452,672 bytes in 745 files.
  629,403,648 bytes available on disk.

        4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
      976,044 total allocation units on disk.
      153,663 allocation units available on disk.

K:\>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y
Volume dismounted.  All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) y

[saratoga]

What happened when you rebooted?  Thats kind of the important part. . .

[nero]

  yes, you're right.

chkdsk simply didn't run.


edit...

so I finally got chkdsk to run...had tried with /r as the only switch. in the end it needed /r /f. Oh yeah...and don't cd to K:\ . I ran it out of C: and it finally gave me a volume I could work on.

Here's the output:

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C:\Documents and Settings>chkdsk k: /f /r
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume NERO created 12/14/2006 11:21 AM
Volume Serial Number is 4C62-08E8
Windows is verifying files and folders...
\rockbox Errors in . and/or .. corrected.
The \Music\Tesla - Psychotic Supper\05 - Song && Emotion.mp3 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \Music\Tesla - Psychotic Supper\05 - Song && Emotion.mp3 entry is not valid.
\rockbox\database_0.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated.
\rockbox\database_idx.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated.
Removing nonvalid long folder entry from \rockbox...
\rockbox\database_4.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated.
\rockbox\database_5.tcd  first allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated.
The \rockbox\doom3\1doomf.wad1 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \rockbox\doom3\1doomf.wad1 entry is not valid.
File and folder verification is complete.
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 693949 corrected.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? n
348160 bytes of free disk space added.
Windows is verifying free space...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

3,997,876,224 bytes total disk space.
      241,664 bytes in 36 hidden files.
      421,888 bytes in 98 folders.
3,367,243,776 bytes in 745 files.
  629,964,800 bytes available on disk.

        4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
      976,044 total allocation units on disk.
      153,800 allocation units available on disk.

I'm happy to say that doomf.wad is gone...also, managed to get another song off there that was causing all sorts of havoc.

So thanks for the tip...and even better, the solution!

[dreamlayers]

It's good that you were able to fix your problem, but I wonder what caused that filesystem corruption, and I wonder if more corruption will happen.  You should at least do another filesystem check later after some use.  Since this is a Nano 1G, I'm reminded of the DMA problem that some people experience.

[nero]

Well my problem got better I should say now that more time has passed. But it wasn't completely solved. In fact, I ended up with a problem that I hadn't seen before. On certain tracks it would actually try to play 2 at a time so I ended up with the world officially WORST mashups ever.

I ran another 2 instances of chkdsk and each came up with one more file needing attention. So in the end I decided to do what I guess any of you would do.

Did a full reformat, iTunes factory restore, and then installed RockBox 3.5.1 and loaded up some songs which worked fine.

Then I loaded up another 3gb to bring it up to 3.5 and went out for an hour or so during which time my iPod worked flawlessly.

In fact, loading songs onto it took a third of the time that it had in the past (just an estimate) and switching between songs now is virtually instantaneous.

I just read through that post you mentioned, at no time had I experienced any of the symptoms listed there so that's a nice sunday sigh of relief.

Thanks again for everyone's help.