I imagine this is pretty straightforward but basically I've had a couple of issues with my iTunes file, I think it was something with a BSOD whilst syncing with another drive but it's thrown up a few tracks that are corrupted.
Thats not much of a big deal I can replace them but I can't get rid of the corrupted ones, I've tried running chkdsk at startup, in windows, I've defrayed, I've taken ownership, I've virus scanned etc and nothing.
Can anyone suggest some decent free software or a simple solution that would do this? I've read about half a dozen "guides" online and they're all pretty poor, like move it to another folder and delete or various combinations of chkdsk routines none of which have worked.
One solution I though was perhaps a linux bootable usb and do it from within linux? If that sounds sensible can someone suggest a build/guide? I know how to spell linux, thats about it.
I'm very reluctant to do a startup repair as I've had that kill installs before now and I really can't be bothered with a reinstall, especially if that doesn't fix it.
The file is on my D: drive by the way so nothing connected to my OS, a reinstall wouldn't fix it on its own.
I have the whole 2TB drive backed up to an external so the nuclear option is reformatting the drive (which again I've checked various ways, its healthy) and copying back from the external but I'd really rather not again.. it's a hell of a lot of data as it's nearly full so anything going wrong when I've only got 1 copy (after formatting the internal drive) would be a disaster.
Thats not much of a big deal I can replace them but I can't get rid of the corrupted ones, I've tried running chkdsk at startup, in windows, I've defrayed, I've taken ownership, I've virus scanned etc and nothing.
Can anyone suggest some decent free software or a simple solution that would do this? I've read about half a dozen "guides" online and they're all pretty poor, like move it to another folder and delete or various combinations of chkdsk routines none of which have worked.
One solution I though was perhaps a linux bootable usb and do it from within linux? If that sounds sensible can someone suggest a build/guide? I know how to spell linux, thats about it.
I'm very reluctant to do a startup repair as I've had that kill installs before now and I really can't be bothered with a reinstall, especially if that doesn't fix it.
The file is on my D: drive by the way so nothing connected to my OS, a reinstall wouldn't fix it on its own.
I have the whole 2TB drive backed up to an external so the nuclear option is reformatting the drive (which again I've checked various ways, its healthy) and copying back from the external but I'd really rather not again.. it's a hell of a lot of data as it's nearly full so anything going wrong when I've only got 1 copy (after formatting the internal drive) would be a disaster.
