Unable to delete a folder

[BigDaddy]

MERLINTHEWIZZARD

I quess I'm one of those 1% ((

Here's the error:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]© Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>cd..

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>rmdir /s sendto

sendto, Are you sure (Y/N)? y

sendto\3ìFLOP~1.LNK - The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>

[BigDaddy]

The second method doesn't work. I believe it's only ment for NTFS partitition and not FAT32!!! Anyway here's the output:

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>del \\?\c:\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

Could Not Find \\?\c:\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>del \\?\c:\doc.old\tomi\sendto\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

Could Not Find \\?\c:\doc.old\tomi\sendto\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>del "\\?\c:\doc.old\tomi\sendto\3ìFLOP~1.LNK"

Could Not Find \\?\c:\doc.old\tomi\sendto\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi>echo WHY WON't IT DELETE ITSELF, GRRRR

[MerlinTheWizard]

Indeed, it only works with NTFS.

By the way, there is no reason whatsoever to use FAT32 on Win NT/2000/XP. Enough said. ;-)

[BlitzKrieg]

If you would of read the first few sentances of my post I explained how to remove the file attributes and delete the file. Did you try it?

That shortcut is for 3½ Floppy that is present in the SendTo menu upon a right click...open that folder in a command window (start -> run -> cmd.exe) and just do type the following: "attrib *.* -s -r" without the quotes followed by: "del 3*.lnk".

You use an asterisk and not a question mark.

[BigDaddy]

BLITZKRIEG

YEs, and here's the output:

Directory of C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo

23.11.2003  12:49    <DIR>          .

23.11.2003  12:49    <DIR>          ..

23.11.2003  12:17                  129 3ìFLOP~1.LNK

            1 File(s)            129 bytes

            2 Dir(s) 8.316.723.200 bytes free

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib

A          C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r

Unable to change attribute - C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r del 3*.lnk

Parameter format not correct -

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r "del 3*.lnk"

Parameter format not correct -

[BigDaddy]

Indeed, it only works with NTFS.

By the way, there is no reason whatsoever to use FAT32 on Win NT/2000/XP. Enough said. ;-)

When I first repartioned the disk I was wondering should I use FAT32 or NTFS(which is superior) but then I got with FA32 cos of its backward compatibilty and the HDD is only 40GB. On my other machine which has 120GB HDD I use NTFS!!! And I love it, no more SCANDISK!!!!

[XtremeMaC]

hi there

did u scan disk? cause mostly delete errors are caused by fat table..

try scandisk..

i had a folder staying around like that

let me tell u its story

i use flashget and I had set the default download dir as c:\downloads\flashget \new

see the space in between flashget and \?

normally u cannot create a folder that has blank space at the end, well old flashget managed that.

anyways i couldn't erase it i was going mad. then i scandisked (check disk whatever it is) and the problem was fixed....

and is nod stupid? of course its gonna get access errors with hiberfil and pagefile.

anyways if u still experience this problem try www.sysinternals.com dl the process explorer and find the handle and close it

though i think that won't work in your case but give it a try? 100kb file..

edit: okay stupid me u've already tried check disk

but if u tried it through windows it won't fix errors bc of file violation so

type

chkntfs /c driveletter

also try diskeeper boot time defrag to defrag them

also try this

follow this guide to disable the send to menu

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1100/

u'll simply delete a string value and send to menu will be disabled.

then try to delete the files in there...

good luck

Edited April 16, 2004 by XtremeMaC

[BigDaddy]

XtremeMAC

Did everything U sad but I still can't erase the bloody file

[BlitzKrieg]

BLITZKRIEG

YEs, and here's the output:

Directory of C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo

23.11.2003  12:49       <DIR>          .

23.11.2003  12:49       <DIR>          ..

23.11.2003  12:17                  129 3ìFLOP~1.LNK

               1 File(s)            129 bytes

               2 Dir(s)   8.316.723.200 bytes free

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib

A          C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r

Unable to change attribute - C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo\3ìFLOP~1.LNK

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r del 3*.lnk

Parameter format not correct -

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r "del 3*.lnk"

Parameter format not correct -

Try this:

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>attrib *.* -s -r

Then:

C:\DOC.OLD\Tomi\SendTo>del 3*.lnk

[XtremeMaC]

ok now changing the attrib won't work

bc u cannot change the attrib bc its in use.

so try some other methods...

its not read-only nor its a system file.. its just a file that's been registered wrong to the fat table.

if u want to f up your hdd go grab a fat table editor and try to solve it like that

if nothing works out backup format

i guess u upgraded from another os right? it might have done something there. maybe u converted from fat32 to ntfs?

i dunno... i thing i know is that its not a trojan or a virus

though be advised after having my problem 1 day i opened up the computer

check disk started at start up and started f'ing my whole folder contents..

i had billions of folders named something+bunch of numbers..

i suggest backup format method

[BigDaddy]

THe OS was freshly installed.The disk has always been FAT32. Perhaps if I were to boot in dos and use Norton Commander(the best file editor in the good old days, IMHO) I would be able to delete those pesky files.

But there's a problem, cos I can't afford to restart the SERVER for atleast another 3days.

[BigDaddy]

This morning I boot up the good old DOS and lunched Norton Commander and volla all of those files are deleted now!!

ps. And now since these files are gone, Windows doesn't take like 10s to do some "Security Policies"

[FFA]

Have you try to boot up in safe mode with commando promt and delete from there i have tryed with some files i couldent delete and try a lot of things but i couldent then i try to boot up in safe mode with commando promt there i could delete the file there was no problem try it

and let me now if it work

hehe i hope so