HELP! cannot delete folder on desktop

[Frank Esposito]

i can not delete a folder on my desktop. I have tried the nameplace registry trick,
tried rd from cmd. the result is:

The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.

I even tried ERD Commander, booting outside of XP pro, nothing.

any ideas?
tia.
-frank

 

[dev]

/Frank Esposito/ said:

I cannot delete a folder on my desktop. I have tried the nameplace registry trick,
tried rd from cmd. the result is:

The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.

I even tried ERD Commander, booting outside of XP pro, nothing.

Try Kelly's link, below. Click on "D" and scroll to...
"How do I delete an "undeletable" file?"

 

[dev]

/Frank Esposito/ said:

I cannot delete a folder on my desktop. I have tried the nameplace registry trick,
tried rd from cmd. the result is:

The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.

I even tried ERD Commander, booting outside of XP pro, nothing.

Kelly's link, below. Click on "D", then scroll to...
"Delete - Permission Denied When Trying to Delete Folders/Files"

 

[Jerry]

I have the same problem. The kellys-korner answer is not applicable.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Frank,

Recap:

Start/Run/CMD: rd FOLDERNAME /s /q

Can't Delete a File or Folder in XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_d.htm#del

 

[Kelly]

What is the folder?

 

[Plato]

i can not delete a folder on my desktop. I have tried the nameplace registry trick,
tried rd from cmd. the result is:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/138.htm#4
http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop10.htm#8

 

[Frank Esposito]

hey thanks for the info, but i fixed it. Everything listed in the
previous posts i tried and they did not work.

when i did the rd command it reported the file was not there


I think the file-name depth was too deep.

what i came up with was renaming every folder(it was 7 levels deep),
then i was finally able to delete the files but not the folders.

Then i rebooted in ERD 2003 commander and was finally able to delete
the folders.

I think the folder was there on the disk, but somehow the index was
missing or corrupted in the file index or part.table or whatever ntfs
uses.

but it is now gone.

i hope this can help someone else.
thanks for the help

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