System32 - Twice ? Riddle me this, How can that be?

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Ok, maybe someone can tell me how this happened.
Here is the senario. Type and command that ends in exe and is in the
system32 folder and I receive "Access is Denied" Plus it shows the command as
xxxxx.com.

Nope, it is not what you think, i.e. unhook.inf, pathexe incorrect. Any more
guesses?

And this is what I am trying to get the answer on, because it isn't supposed
to happen.

What I found was not one but two System32 folders under Windows, in Explorer.
At the cmd or command, it only shows one. But there is more. I actually
explored the FAT table and guess what, it is there also. Once it was deleted,
all worked well. Keep in mind that this messed up other programs also.

So how could this have happened, What could have done this, and WHY didn't
they OS stop it from happening. Is this a trend of something new that is or
will be going around?

Your comments are welcome. Even your thoughts on this, as I am baffled how
this is even possible.
 
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Ok, maybe someone can tell me how this happened.
Here is the senario. Type and command that ends in exe and is in the
system32 folder and I receive "Access is Denied" Plus it shows the command
as
xxxxx.com.

Nope, it is not what you think, i.e. unhook.inf, pathexe incorrect. Any
more
guesses?

And this is what I am trying to get the answer on, because it isn't
supposed
to happen.

What I found was not one but two System32 folders under Windows, in
Explorer.
At the cmd or command, it only shows one. But there is more. I actually
explored the FAT table and guess what, it is there also. Once it was
deleted,
all worked well. Keep in mind that this messed up other programs also.

So how could this have happened, What could have done this, and WHY didn't
they OS stop it from happening. Is this a trend of something new that is
or
will be going around?

Your comments are welcome. Even your thoughts on this, as I am baffled how
this is even possible.
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I've seen similar things on my PC - two files with what appear to be exactly
the same file name residing in the same directory.

As far as I am aware this is impossible. I can only guess that one of the
file contains additional, non-printable characters in its name. As to how
this has come about I have no idea!

Ed Metcalfe.
 
Probably something peculiar to FAT32.

How many times have you copied something by mistake by dragging it?

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Well this is NTFS, there are no hidden characters and the table file ID is
the same for both System32 folders ?
 
I actually explored the FAT table and guess what,

NTFS has a master file table (MFT), not a file allocation table.

file allocation table (FAT)
A file system used by MS-DOS and other Windows-based operating systems to
organize and manage files. The file allocation table (FAT) is a data
structure that Windows creates when you format a volume by using the FAT or
FAT32 file systems. Windows stores information about each file in the FAT so
that it can retrieve the file later.

Master File Table (MFT)
An NTFS system file on NTFS-formatted volumes that contains information
about each file and folder on the volume. The MFT is the first file on an
NTFS volume.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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