hello again everyone recovery by wondershare is an incredible way to retrieve deleted files with
its powerful capabilities and features but did you know that it can also fix corrupted files as well
corrupt files can be a real hassle especially when you're working to a tight deadline but as
much as it would be nice to know that no one could ever lose data that just
unfortunately isn't the case now it's tough to delete corrupted files on your computer
and then recover it back sometimes it can be a process that is just fraught with anxiety
that's why we thought today why not help you people to deal with corrupted files
efficiently so we're here with this video tutorial on how to delete corrupted files
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there can be many reasons why files corrupt and knowing why it can happen can help you manage your
data better in the future mostly it happens when there is the presence of malware or defects in the
software power loss or power related issues can also cause file corruption the improper shutdown
of your computer attributes to file corruption as well removing a hard drive or any other storage
media without correctly disconnecting them properly and lastly poor programming if it's
causing a hard restart now the presence of such corrupted files on your PC can be a headache
unfortunately traditional ways of permanent file deletion aren't always going to work with them
you may have to try some different methods that we're going to share with you if you're repeatedly
getting you can't delete corrupted file message and you're tired of facing it there are several
ways to delete corrupted files or folders so let's try them out you can close Windows Explorer and
reboot the computer to eliminate corrupted files first of all move the corrupted files to a folder
now delete the folder manually which contains the corrupted files in you will then have to
open task manager for closing Windows Explorer the easiest way to do this is by holding the control
alt and delete buttons together and then click on the task manager option preview and find the
Windows Explorer from the list right click on Windows Explorer and choose end task from the
list of options after that restart your computer and see whether the files have been deleted or not
deleting files will sometimes ask you for administrator access now if you don't know
how to sign in as administrator we will tell you three options for doing so press and hold Ctrl alt
delete button simultaneously and choose switch user then pick the admin user account and press
enter you could restart your computer and then on the welcome screen enter the admin's username
and password in order to sign in as administrator or lastly you can open control panel by searching
for it in the search box head over to the user accounts and open the administrator permissions
confirm it by entering the administrator password these three ways will help you be able to log your
computer in as administrator after this you should be able to delete corrupted files you can delete
corrupted files using CMD too now if you're into Tech its capabilities are probably known to you
but for those who don't know about command prompt it is a command line interpreter that's built into
Windows it can help fix many issues on a system to delete corrupted files using CMD click on the
magnifier icon in the taskbar and type CMD then click on CMD and select run as administrator now
in the CMD interface type the following command Del forward slash F forward slash Q forward slash
a followed by the exact file path for the file that is corrupted and then press enter
CMD will now start deleting the corrupted file if it shows a message saying could not find that
specific file path this simply means that the file has been removed now have you inadvertently
deleted a file by mistake when you were trying to remove a corrupted file don't worry recover
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software once you start the software you will then need to choose where you've lost the data
from for this simply choose the hard disk drive from the hard disk drives tab click Start to
initiate the scan of that selected location and recover it will start scanning for files
and show all results now depending on the file sizes it can take some time to complete the scan
however you do have the freedom to pinpoint or stop the scanning process at any time in order
to locate deleted videos try turning on the advanced video recover option you can also use
the filter icon or type the file keyword in the search box to narrow down your results recovery
by wondershare also enables you to preview files before choosing to recover them then just pick
which files you want to get back and click the recover button and it will ask you to select a
path to save the files to and then click recover to save them so hopefully you now have your answer
on how to delete corrupted files through windows it's pretty easy to do if you follow the steps
correctly so if you hit a wall next time while trying to recover an important file or folder
you know what to do thanks for taking the time and watching this video through if you found
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