Thanks for the help - I did reinstall the s/w and it now appears in
Control's Add/Delete list. It totals almost a Gig and I wanted to move it
to my new 120 Gb HDD.
And yes I am "old" and do go back to the DOS days when programs and data fit
on a single sided single density 5 1/4 floppy that I was happy to buy for
$1.00. Also did some programming in BASIC, assembly, Fortran, and other
unused languages. Now programmers have it easy - need to rewind a tape
(oops, do we still use them?) and rather than having to write 10 lines of
code they can add a 3-4 Mb DLL to their software package and be done with
it. The user won't mind getting another couple of Gb of RAM and a new HDD.
Shoot - Britannica is bigger than my first two HDDs together.
Terry
"Eric Niewoehner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well, Ted, maybe Terry is "old". I would concur with Ted. Try
> installing and then uninstalling using the program that Britannica
> should provide.
>
> But the error you speak of is not related to the program, but to the
> file system. It appears that you may have some temporary buffer files
> used by Britannica that have been corrupted. Just let them be. It may
> be possible that the next CHKDSK or Error Check you conduct on the drive
> may remove the files.
>
> The fun part about manually removing a program is going into the
> registry and removing all the registry entries of the program,
> especially the Class IDs. While leaving some of these registry entries
> behind may be OK, it will add to the bulk of the registry.
>
> Ted Zieglar wrote:
>
> > That's not the "old fashioned way" -- it's the wrong way. And it's not
> > even the old fashioned way, unless your notion of old fashioned goes
> > back to DOS.
> >
> > Your first step is to look in the Start menu listing to see if there is
> > a shortcut for the uninstaller. If none, the next thing to do is to
> > reinstall the program. The last step is to contact Britannica technical
> > support.
> >
> > Ted Zieglar
> >
> > "Terry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> >> I decided to remove a program - Britannica 2002 - but did not find it
> >> in the
> >> Add/Remove Programs list. So I decided to do it the old fashion way -
> >> delete the directory. Couldn't do that due to errors. So I deleted
the
> >> files one at a time (actually groups).
> >>
> >> I'm down to a small number of files and I'm getting "Cannot delete
XXXX:
> >> Data error (cyclic redundancy check)." How can I delete these last few
> >> files?
> >>
> >> Must I reinstall the software in hopes that it can be deleted normally?
> >>
> >> Terry
> >>
> >>
> >
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