Chinese character file names on w 510

[Daniel Davis]

Seems as if no matter what I do, I keep encountering 2 directories on the hard drive of my new w510 that have Chinese character file names. One of them takes up quite a bit of screen space left to right. What are these directories all about?

[Colonel O'Neill]

Very likely disk corruption.
Run a CHKDSK /F immediately.

[Daniel Davis]

Well...I recognize machine language (as is typical with checkdsk data) when I see it on screen, but this is genuine chinese language characters.

[Colonel O'Neill]

Where are they found? What are they named?

[Daniel Davis]

Where are they found? What are they named?

No way to know what they're named...as I don't read Chinese. Next time it happens...I'll note the location. There are 2 files when it happened (I deleted them last time.) One chinese file name reaches almost all the way across the screen. The other is about 30 characters.

[emtee3511]

If you are able to copy the file names, you can use Google Translate (copy & paste) to get a general idea of what the files are named.

[Colonel O'Neill]

Or copy-paste it directly here.

[w0qj]

May we presume that it's not some sort of Chinese program that you have installed onto your computer, and this program had created a Chinese folder?

FYI, I'm based in Hong Kong, I installed English Win7-Pro on my T410, and there are no Chinese folders anywhere on my computer.

[Daniel Davis]

I haven't installed anything on the computer that should have anything to do with China. It is my business machine, so it NEVER goes on the net.

[Colonel O'Neill]

So I presume the CHKDSK /F turned out error free?

[tblwbob]

Seems as if no matter what I do, I keep encountering 2 directories on the hard drive of my new w510 that have Chinese character file names. One of them takes up quite a bit of screen space left to right. What are these directories all about?

hey,you may post the Chinese character here, i can read Chinese, it may help you

[emtee3511]

@tblwbob

Is this: "I like black."

what this: 我喜欢小黑。 means?

[Colonel O'Neill]

"小黑" is the term some Chinese use to describe ThinkPads.

[emtee3511]

"小黑" is the term some Chinese use to describe ThinkPads.

That translates to "black" -- so "I like black" is "I like Thinkpads" cool

[tblwbob]

"小黑" is the term some Chinese use to describe ThinkPads.

That translates to "black" -- so "I like black" is "I like Thinkpads" cool

yes, you r right! 黑 means black, refers to the color of Thinkpads, and 小 means small or cute. 小黑 is a nick name

[Daniel Davis]

So I presume the CHKDSK /F turned out error free?

Yep...error free. I deleted the 2 folders with chinese filenames. Today, however, wordperfect 15 showed up with chinese characters for the icon label on the desktop.

[Colonel O'Neill]

And what exactly were those characters?