Hi guys!

One day I was sorting my 500gb external usb harddisk, I had reached my GFX section, and began to move pic's around. At some point, it said 'unable to delete, file not found blabla'. So I tried CHKDSK... Still nothing, I tried command promt... Still nothing... No matter what I try, it fails to delete the file (XP/VISTA/UBUNTU afair). It's insane if I need to reformat, so I was thinking that maybe you guys had a solution.

I have this now:

E:\Graphix\Strange ****

E:\Graphix\Strange ****\January 2008

E:\Graphix\Strange ****\January 2008\Thumbs.db:encryptable

E:\Graphix\Strange ****\XCF

E:\Graphix\Strange ****\XCF\Thumbs.db:encryptable

ANY help is highly appreciated!

Have those folders ever been on an encrypted volume? It's complaining about a thumbs.db file with an encrypted alternate data stream. So, either they were on a volume that was encrypted, or they're potentially a candidate for scanning for malicious data. In any case, if you can boot into ubuntu with the ntfs-3g package, you will be able to delete it. However, due to the encrypted ADS, you will not be able to whack it from within Windows (and without ntfs-3g, probably not get it from ubuntu either).

For locked files I've used unlocker application in the past, but for this issue I really don't know how to help..

@Cluberti, going to download and burn Ubuntu in a minute,

Btw: The encrypted Thumb files are 0-byte files.

@N1K

'Error: The object could not be deleted' - unlocker

Lol, and now another problem... In Vista x64, my SVCHOST.EXE (services) has begun to eat all my memory... It haven't done that before, it began to do it yesterday... after I installed PAINT.NET (Does it configure the framework under install?)

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by Mr.Thunderbird

WORKED on UBUNTU 8.04! Thanks guys!

Any info on the other problem I'm facing?

You can use TASKLIST /SVC from the command line to narrow down which service in the svchost task is acting up.

Are you positive it isn't malware or maybe a virus infection?

I've just scanned it with NOD32 AV. 0 infections found.

Well, I'm on Vista, so I pressed GO TO Services, now there is around 10 Services highlighted.

OK; I did TASKLIST /SVC...

The SVCHOST.EXE which eats my resources has PID 336, so I looked at the tasklist I got from cmd.

I got:

SCVHOST.EXE 336 AudioEndpointbuilder, cscService, EMDmgmt, hidserv, Netman, PcaSvc, Sysmain, TabletInputDevice, tRKWKS,UXSMS, WDIsystemhost, wlansvc, WPDBusEnum, wudfsvc.

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by Mr.Thunderbird

I remember that Microsoft released patch for Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server operating systems where windows update followed by svchost.exe was guilty for high processor consumption.

But I haven't heard that this situation happened on Vista also

Try with process explorer mate, see if you can digg something out with this application..

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896653.aspx

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by Mr.Thunderbird

It could be anything really :g:

Yeah!

Oh well... Going to reformat then. Just a bummer... Just reformatted 2 days ago, worked REALLY GOOD ( No lagg, no pause, no hangs, FULL Vista effects and stuff like that), but well now... It's trashed, even when using the classic theme it laggs and hangs a lot..

Well, reformat and reinstall is sometimes quicker than spinning in circle to solve issues..

Yeah!

Oh well... Going to reformat then. Just a bummer... Just reformatted 2 days ago, worked REALLY GOOD ( No lagg, no pause, no hangs, FULL Vista effects and stuff like that), but well now... It's trashed, even when using the classic theme it laggs and hangs a lot..

Yes, that's true

Anyways, thanks a lot for your help and time N1K

Nothing to thank me for mate, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to help.. Although, I've expected that Cluberti would be able to find the solution for this, he's a true expert for Microsoft technology..

Yes, that's true

Anyways, thanks a lot for your help and time N1K

Well, thanks for trying anyways!

Wow, this is weird!

Now I'm getting I/O errors on booting from CD

EDIT: OK; rebooted, working now.. reformatting

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by Mr.Thunderbird