How To Delete A Corrupted File. Just pressing delete is not working neither with del in CMD. How can I remove the bad file is to continue backing up without stopping?
First, boot into "Safe" mode and try to delete it from there. Any attempt to delete the file results in "No such file or directory" as if the file isn't there. You will have to delete it manually bit by bit.
I've already seen a few users facing an error message while deleting unwanted files on their systems.
Don't bang your keyboard if you can't delete a file.
Exit any programs that you have running, so that you can prepare to restart your computer. I make a backup disk with bad sectors on Ubuntu. Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file.