Phantom File from Seagate external drive refuses to be deleted

Good evening!
Purchased This guy: Seagate - Backup Plus 4TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive to transfer files from multiple smaller portable drives onto one drive. Wide variety of files; music, audiobooks, movies, photos, work files (CS Suite, fonts), etc.
Copied my "MUSIC_COLLECTION" folder over from this guy: Seagate FreeAgent Go 320 GB 2.5" External Hard Drive - USB 2.0 to the new drive seemingly without incident. Accidentally began copying it a second time into a sub-folder on the new drive, stopped the duplicate transfer, dragged the dupe to the trash and there it lives now as a grayed out item that can't be deleted. When I try to delete it, I get "You have run out of application memory" errors and have to relaunch the finder at best, restart the computer at worst.
I'm on a MacBook Pro, recently updated to Mavericks (OS X 10.9 / 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 / 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3). Runs happily so long as that new drive isn't connected. But I run into the application memory errors when it is even if all I've got open is one Chrome window and MS Outlook.
I found a Macworld article with instructions to force delete in Terminal. It didn't delete the directory. This is the message I received: rm: /Volumes/kodama/.Trashes/501/MUSIC_COLLECTION: Input/output error
Any thoughts on how I can delete the MUSIC_COLLECTION ghost?
Thanks for any suggestions that may help and Happy Holidays to those who celebrate.
Best,
H.

This got a few views so I thought I'd post the solution I was given in case anyone else runs into similar issues. I went to the genius bar at my local Apple store and they pointed out that I hadn't formatted the new seagate drive properly--it was still formatted for Windows. So I copied everything back over to the assorted drives, reformatted the new seagate for mac, and it's been fine since.

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