folder i cant get rid of on my extrenal hd!!!

hi i got a seagate external hd and there a folder i can't get rid of.....it is saying 'cannot delete ;the request could not be preformed because of an I/O device error' ive tryed to remove it in safe mode ,ive also tryed to formatt the external hd too but nothing works....any help would be great ....thanks
jwb38

 

What is the name of the file?

 

it's a cd i had installed from my cd collection,super country hits ,i reformatted the pc so it shouldnt even be giving me this fit but of course that didnt do anything to the external drives since they were turned off...i dont get it....it says its a read only file ,is that what u meant by checking the prop on the file ?

 

no other files on it i moved them all ,and i looked and it dont saying anything about permission on it ,so ....i dont know as i said when i tryed to formatt it the same error mess came up ...'cannot delete ;the request could not be preformed because of an I/O device error'

 

since you reinstalled your OS on your computer, you might have security issue.
If you want to format your external HDD, you can simply go to disk management and delete the whole partition and recreate it and format it.
This, however, will delete everything you have in the external HDD.

 

pari22
Private First Class how do i go to disk mangement and do that ?its worth a try i guess as long as i can use the external drive again after doing it that would work for me

 

ok, ive been formatting this external drive since 8 pm fri night (its been 8 hrs) and it only at 21 o/o ,so im not sure if its still going or not,it seems to be stuck on 21 o/o ,grrrr i guess when i get up ill check back here and see if anyones posted ......its a 160 gb seagate hd and im thinking it should be done by now...thanks

 

jwb,
ok let's start this thing from the beggining. And you're right about HDD formatting taking too long.
First, what OS are you using?
is your external HDD hooked up to a some kind of USB hub?
did you try to "delete the partition" first? instead of straight formatting?

Please post your answers and we'll go from there