Hi,
Did this help in getting rid of the / file?
Cause 6: The file name includes an invalid name in the Win32 name space
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320081
What is more puzzling is- the defrag log shows it as being on the root,
but it's somewhere else. I have no idea how to FIND it, nonetheless
remove it.
\ is also an illegal character for a file or folder name in Windows.
Typing \ into the Search box and hitting Enter automatically changes the
\ to *.* which is a wild card that will find every file on your machine.
That is no help. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that
represents one or more characters. So *.* looks for
filename.file-extension.
Start | Run | Type: \ | Click OK. If C:\ is the root then C:\ will
open.
In the defrag log anything on C:\ will be listed as \ I.e. C:\WINDOWS
will be listed as \WINDOWS. You can type or paste \WINDOWS in the run
command and C:\WINDOWS will open. As usual, I discovered that little
bit of trivia by accident. ;-)
How do you know that the \ file is some where else other than in C:\?
Maybe it's a hidden file.
To display Hidden files and folders...
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Folder Options | View tab
Check:
Display the contents of system folders
and
Show hidden files and folders
UNCheck:
Hide extensions for known file types
and
Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
Click Apply | Click OK
When you uncheck: Hide protected operating system files,
you will get this message...
Warning
----------
You have chosen to display protected operating system files (files
labeled System and Hidden) in Windows Explorer.These files are required
to start and run Windows. Deleting or editing them can make your
computer inoperable.Are you sure you want to display these files?
----------
Click YES.
[[Hidden files and folders will appear dimmed to indicate they are not
typical items.]]
Now open C:\ and look fo the \ file.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Confuzzled <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Hi Wesley,
You were indeed correct. The file above was simply illegal and defrag
didn't know how to move it.
I have a similar problem on another system but for the life of me can't
figure out how to solve it. This time, the file is \ that cannot be
defragged.
What is more puzzling is- the defrag log shows it as being on the root,
but it's somewhere else. I have no idea how to FIND it, nonetheless
remove it.
Any tips? I've tried all sorts of finders on file ?. and other methods
as the file does not appear to be on the root of C: drive but somewhere
else.. but due to it's name DEFRAG seems a bit confused reporting it's
location (just 1KB and \ )
:
/ is an illegal character for a file or folder name in Windows.
See this for trying to delete it...
See...
Cause 6: The file name includes an invalid name in the Win32 name space
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320081
Note:
The following characters are invalid as file or folder names on Windows
using NTFS:
/ ? < > \ : * | " and any character you can type with the Ctrl key
In addition to the above illegal characters the caret ^ is also not
permitted under Windows Operating Systems using the FAT file system.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Confuzzled <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Greetings,
Windows XP Pro + SP2 and all current patches. System has one physical
hard drive broken into C: and D: partitions.
Defrag will not complete fully as it will always list a single file it
cannot defragment. The file is:
/ size 2KB
No other real ramifications other than curiosity why this "/" file
cannot be defragmented. Error scans find no errors and this remaining
file has remained unable to be defragmented for months to no avail.
Is this something that can be fixed or otherwise ignored? Thanks!