Phantom files in win2k- undeletable

[developmental2]

Hi all,

some months ago I deleted my old windows 2k installation dirs and
reinstalled win2k
(I renamed C:/winnt and /program files dirs to *.OLD from DOS, and
then installed win2k-
didn't need to reformat the disk). It works fine except the old
winnt.old won't delete completely, because it has some strange files
inside /system32, 2 gigs worth:
of 32k files that show no name or date (or any other attribute except a
file icon) in explorer,
multiple *empkey files where instead of the * there appears a square
symbol,
a *ystem file withe the same symbol, and SYSTEM file with 2 gigs.
All of those files, when deleted from DOS Window or Explorer, yields
the error:

Everything else in the winnt.old dir has been deleted.

"Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk"


Thanks for reading

PS its an 80gb Fat32 partition.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,

some months ago I deleted my old windows 2k installation dirs and
reinstalled win2k
(I renamed C:/winnt and /program files dirs to *.OLD from DOS, and
then installed win2k-
didn't need to reformat the disk). It works fine except the old
winnt.old won't delete completely, because it has some strange files
inside /system32, 2 gigs worth:
of 32k files that show no name or date (or any other attribute except a
file icon) in explorer,
multiple *empkey files where instead of the * there appears a square
symbol,
a *ystem file withe the same symbol, and SYSTEM file with 2 gigs.
All of those files, when deleted from DOS Window or Explorer, yields
the error:

Everything else in the winnt.old dir has been deleted.

"Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk"


Thanks for reading

PS its an 80gb Fat32 partition.

I suggest you run chkdsk c: /F.

 

[developmental2]

I already did (forgot to mention)

I ran chkdsk c: /f /r

and it didn't improve.

I also tried to do an attrib -h -r -a on the files and it said:
unable to change attribute


thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I already did (forgot to mention)

I ran chkdsk c: /f /r

and it didn't improve.

I also tried to do an attrib -h -r -a on the files and it said:
unable to change attribute


thanks

The next step is to reboot the machine in Safe Mode
by pressing F8 during the early boot phase, then
deleting the folders.

If this does not work then you should do this:
- Start a Command Prompt (Start / Run / cmd {OK})
- Navigate to parent of the problem folder. Let's assume
its name is xxx.
- Type these commands:
dir /s > dir.txt
cacls "xxx" /t >> dir.txt
notepad dir.txt
Now paste the relevant sections of this text file into your reply.