Defrag problems.

[SpanishMike]

On a couple of occasions recently when I have tried to defrag’ my main
hard drive, I have been informed that there were some files that could
not be touched. Upon investigation I found that these files amounted
to more than 18GB of backup files, BAK’s. I’d like to remove these
files but haven’t worked out a way of doing this. Any comments or
advice out there?

 

[Guest]

click start, search all files and folder and type *.bak and click search
this should expose the location of the backup files

 

[Richard Urban MVP]

When once the files are displayed, highlight the ones you don't want and
press the delete key. If you want to get rid of all of them, highlight one -
then press control | A together. Then press the delete key.

Be careful here.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Richard Urban

MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

I was wondering when I was going to see that. Congratulations.

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[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Thank you sir.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Sharon F]

I was wondering when I was going to see that. Congratulations.

Echoing the sentiment: Congratulations, Richard!

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Thanks Sharon.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I was wondering when I was going to see that. Congratulations.


"Richard Urban MVP"

<AOL> Me too. </AOL>

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[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Open a command prompt. Type chkdsk c: /r EXACTLY as I typed (including
spaces). You will get a message that it can't run - do you want to run
during the next boot up. Type in Y for yes, then "enter". Then exit and
reboot. You may find that the mysterious file is gone and was caused by disk
corruption.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"