I thought to share, perhaps can save someoene else an hour or 2...I had a pickle of a time deleting a destination folder on my drive thatI created by an incorrect syntax of robocopy.here is whatI ran:robocopy "c:\sourcefolder" "d:\destfolder /s /e"Notice that i put the quote AFTER the /s /e options, (correct syntax should have been: robocopy "c:\sourcefolder" "d:\destfolder" /s /eIf you run that though, (with the wrong syntax), you get a folder on the destination side that you can NOT delete. (not from explorer, command prompt, etc..)After an hour or so of chkdsk's,lots of rmdir, re-applying permissions,installing unlockers, rebooting into safeomde, etc.. I finally figured it out.You have to type from the command prompt:rmdir /s "d:\destfolder /"Hope this helps someone.-E

You diamond! I've been battling with this for ages. I can't confirm the incorrect syntax I originally used with Robocopy but the rmdir command line you gave deleted my "un-deletable" folder straight away - and this was on Server 2008 R2 standard. Further to the above I had a folder in the same directory with an identical name with 19GB of data in it, this was untouched by the command so I'm very happy. Thanks again Steve

I tried every solution I could find on the internet to delete corrupted directories in XP Home: none worked. This included checking permissions, checking long path names, booting in Safe Mode and running DOS commands rmdir /s, chkdsk, subst, changing attributes, etc. I finally found Robocopy which is provided free by Microsoft in their "Windows Resource Kits". In order to get Robocopy to work I created a new directory "JUNK" on the C: dirve with nothing in the directory. The JUNK directory was used as the SOURCE directory for the Robocopy command and the directories I could not delete were one and two levels below the "CORRUPT" DESTINATION directory. I entered the following command at the DOS prompt: robocopy C:\JUNK C:\CORRUPT /E /PURGE Problem solved. Robocopy copied nothing to the DESTINATION folder but it did purge the corrupted directories. The /E switch may not be necessary but I used it anyway. Chuck Stephens