

I read posts and solutions on forums and sites, and tried many solutions such as changing extension, taking ownership, ect. But I couldn’t delete the corrupted file.

I tried to put the backed up dll file to the location where it belongs to. After rebooting system, I got an error message saying some dll file was missing. Recently I installed a third party program which required changing some dll files in System 32. It’s common that you can’t delete files in use, but you might be frustrated if corrupted files can’t be deleted. Please run the chkdsk utility on the device with label “Volume_name” The file system structure on disk is corrupted and unreadable. Cannot delete file name: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Here are error messages you may receive when deleting a corrupted file. However, corrupted files are not that easy to delete as usual. In general, it’s easy to delete files and many users are likely to delete files by accident. Symptoms that you cannot delete corrupted files This article talks about solutions to delete corrupted files that cannot be deleted normally, report corrupted files and provides method to recover deleted files that are deleted accidently.
