My WD TV Live SMP has created a file on one of my portable HDDs that has an invalid file name. I have tried a number of ways to rename and/or delete the file; including Windows Explorer, Bulk Rename Utility, and cmd. None of them work - they all return messages to the effect that the file has an in…

JACKPOT! Ok, so I was doing some more googling and came across something that I thought I would try - and it worked. Whilst running cmd in Administrator mode (not sure if this was necessary), I cd’d into the directory and ran chkdsk /V /f on the HDD. It asked if it could be unmounted - which it c…

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Created file with invalid file name - cannot delete!

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JoeySmyth September 18, 2014, 12:54pm 10

Cool happy to hear your problem sorted

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