I run ubuntu as a dual boot along with Windows and last time I was on ubuntu, I created a folder (Java) in the following directory. This time, when I logged on, I was unable to navigate into the folder, and in nautilus the folder appears with the image of binary.

I don't really mind losing the data that was in the folder, so I'm just trying to delete it so I can make a new one. However, each time I try deleting, moving, or performing any other operation on the 'folder' it gives me a message like in the following:

user@user:/media/user/DATA/Personal/Program$ ls -l

total 788888

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 Aug 17 19:30 Github

-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root    269367 Dec 19 01:30 Java

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4096 May 14  2013 Learning

-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root  17929538 Aug 11  2012 mediawiki-1.19.1.tar.gz

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5810 Nov 30 23:55 mtee.zip

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4096 Sep 30 23:41 Projects

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 Dec 19 15:15 Text-1.txt

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root       782 May 23  2012 ToRuby.lnk

-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 789884928 Mar 16  2013 ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root         0 Mar  3  2013 Utility

-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root   5435945 Jul 31 19:20 wordpress-3.5.2.zip

user@user:/media/user/DATA/Personal/Program$ rm Java

rm: cannot remove ‘Java’: No such file or directory

user@user:/media/user/DATA/Personal/Program$ 

Edit: When I try to do any operations on 'Java' in nautilus, I get a "Error removing file: No such file or directory" message as well.

Edit2: I attempted to delete using srm, and received a new error: "Error: File Java - file is hardlinked 1 time(s), skipping!"

Edit 3: I found the second hardlink was in my iTunes library file.

Resolved: I ended up trying to create a new folder in Windows and had absolutely no problems. Rebooted in ubuntu and everything is hunky dory