Error message on my external hard drive.

I've got a WD Ext HDD 1021 2TB hard drive and use it with the Windows 7 back-up program. I have to go in and manually delete back-up sets of files to keep availabel room on the hard drive. I'm trying to delete soem back up sets and get the error message "Error 0x80070091: The directory is not empty" and the folder that I've chosen for deletion will not delete. Can anyone tell me what this error means and what I need to do to delete the folders that I want to? Thanks

Hello and welcome to the WD community.
I recommend doing a diagnostic on the drive to see if perhaps it could be an issue with file corruption. You can try this out see if it helps:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Check-a-drive-for-errors

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RAM: 8 GB
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