ThA_FiLeR Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 I have this folder on my F:\ drive that is named "ec6da31f6" and it contains folders:commonsp1sp2I cannot delete any of these maps nor acces them, I tried by going to it through my computer and all that, and with Windows Commander it also won't delete. Any suggestions?It gives me this error: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Tried deleting them through DOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 Are you sure its not only the "common" folder? Try deleting each one individually and see what happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 I know I could go into DOS and do it, but I don't know it it would damage my windows installation, and yes I tried to delete em manually... Think I can go delete em in DOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Go into safe mode, place those folders elsewhere for now, and go back into normal mode for a couple of days. If nothing's wrong, then those folders should be safe to delete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 lol, went in safe mode and still cant delete it there. Only rename/move the main folder "ec6da31f6", but still cant delete the folders inside it.. I am thinking that those are folders protected by windows or something, isn't there someway to disable that? Thanks for your suggestions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Those are your service pack installs and can be removed in the control panel, add/remove, I think. Later, you might have problems you know. You can boot with a boot disk (see the guides section) and delete anything. Just make sure you have copies of them like Aaron said.BTW, can you make the picture a little smaller please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 In the past few weeks, i have noticed this problem while doing some tech work at my job....as it seems there is a nasty virus that will creat a folder on your Hd that can be hidden somtimes and is inacessable and non movable. Some how this virus creates a small partition on your main drive that usally is called "-" or somthing of that nature, in it contains a virus that can damage your system and disable NAV as well as Optical devises, the random folder on your HD contains instructions to access the small partition. Im not positive if this is your problem, but i have seen about 3 of these in the past two weeks. I reccomend loading up a xp pro disk and looking at the availiable partitions to install to. If the random and very small partition is there, u know what your infor, good luck =Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 BTW, can you make the picture a little smaller please.35K! Oh please....Drew, this might be the problem, this is a pretty fresh install and I haven't installed a virus scanner, so I will now... Gonna try it, thanx.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 I installed NAV, it didnt detect any viruses, then went and boot into the XP installation cd, and didn't see any special drives.. so then I put a backup in that is a basic installation of XP with nothing but my video card driver... and still can't delete the folder... I can't acces it neither.. Now, I was thinking of formatting it but the HD is 70gigs and only has 6gigs free so im using bout 64GIG which I can only backup on my network and that'll take ages..Oh, and I also check out the guides section and cant find a Free NTFS boot disk, so I can't delete it through DOS... Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I got a suggestion: Hide it and ignore it...If its not in your way, then leave it alone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 Ima have to live with it, even XP Recovery Console didn't want to delete it or acces the main folder.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Haven't you tried a system restore? Its not the same as the recovery console, is it? How about using a Win98 boot disk to boot into DOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 BTW, can you make the picture a little smaller please.35K! Oh please.... I am refering to the width as it causes some monitors to scroll sideways. You might have 17 inch or larger monitor and would not notice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted April 18, 2003 Author Share Posted April 18, 2003 Haven't you tried a system restore? Its not the same as the recovery console, is it? How about using a Win98 boot disk to boot into DOS?then it wouldn't recognize the NTFS drives, duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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