It’s clear what the problem is exactly, but it’s mostly likely due to corrupted sectors on the external drive or corrupted files that cannot be deleted. In this article, we will provide known fixes to this error by fixing errors on the disk using the chkdsk utility, and then providing a workaround to delete folders that won’t delete.

Method 1: Running the chkdsk Utility

Method 2: Workarounds

We’ll look into two workarounds, which are adding a excel file in the problem folder and then deleting that folder, and also prefixing the problem folder name with a ! sign and then deleting the folder.

Workaround 1

Workaround 2

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