chkdsk message

[S. Stewart]

Have a problem with my Dell Latitude laptop hard drive.
Running windowsxp and NTFS file system.

Made a mistake the other day by pulling the battery in
the middle of an email download. It ran chkdsk upon
reboot. Said it fixed problem.

However, whenever i run a disk serach i get this message:

The file or directory C: is corrupt and ureadable. Please
run the Chkdsk utility.

I narrowed the problem to a specific subdirectory (was
the "spool" subdirectory off the email program, moved
that subdirectory into a new subdirectory called zzzzzz.
That way i only hit it at the end of a search - and also
let me confirm that it was the problem.

I was hoping to just delete the subdirectory, but it
won't let me - says it's not empty. However, it won't let
me delete the contents, nor can i see the contents. I've
turned off the read only attribs, but still no luck.

I have run both chkdsk/f and chkdsk/r several times, no
fix.

This doesn't seem to be causing any other problem except
the error message when i hit that subdirectory and the
fact that it will run chkdsk/f upon the next boot if i've
caused the error message to appear. Otherwise it appears
to boot normally and operate normally.

Any ideas?

Thanks