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Rory Calhoun
I'm having a HECK of a time trying to delete a stubborn folder in XP
Pro. It's an empty folder called "SurfStream" (in my All Users Start
Menu),
and I get "Can not delete file. Can not read from the source file or
disk". I can not go into the folder, even through CMD (DOS window),
and I can
not delete it through RD /S. This is a FOLDER, so none of the stubborn
FILE deletion tips will work.
I've tried:
- safe mode
- chkdsk /f
- renaming, copying, moving it (none of which work, but I can copy and
delete a file to the SurfStream folder)
- moveonboot
- dellater
- process explorer
- killing explorer in task manager and trying to del it
- using ATTRIB (it won't work, and the folder shows no attributes
anyway)
- and finally, praying to Bill Gates
Needless to say, nothing worked. I know its not a permissions problem
because I'm not getting that kind of error, and that its not a busy
handle problem, otherwise, Process Explorer and MoveOnBoot would have
worked to
correct it. So exactly what the heck am I dealing with here, a folder
possessed by the devil? I considered the possibilty that the "great
horned one"
(possibly Bill Gates, I'm not sure) added a secret hidden character to
the end of the filename. Because when I renamed it, the colored bar
goes exactly one character longer than the name itself - like a space.
Well, that's the best I've been able to come up with. Any sound ideas
here, that don't require reformatting my file system?
Pro. It's an empty folder called "SurfStream" (in my All Users Start
Menu),
and I get "Can not delete file. Can not read from the source file or
disk". I can not go into the folder, even through CMD (DOS window),
and I can
not delete it through RD /S. This is a FOLDER, so none of the stubborn
FILE deletion tips will work.
I've tried:
- safe mode
- chkdsk /f
- renaming, copying, moving it (none of which work, but I can copy and
delete a file to the SurfStream folder)
- moveonboot
- dellater
- process explorer
- killing explorer in task manager and trying to del it
- using ATTRIB (it won't work, and the folder shows no attributes
anyway)
- and finally, praying to Bill Gates
Needless to say, nothing worked. I know its not a permissions problem
because I'm not getting that kind of error, and that its not a busy
handle problem, otherwise, Process Explorer and MoveOnBoot would have
worked to
correct it. So exactly what the heck am I dealing with here, a folder
possessed by the devil? I considered the possibilty that the "great
horned one"
(possibly Bill Gates, I'm not sure) added a secret hidden character to
the end of the filename. Because when I renamed it, the colored bar
goes exactly one character longer than the name itself - like a space.
Well, that's the best I've been able to come up with. Any sound ideas
here, that don't require reformatting my file system?