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[Guest]

Hello all

Thanx for you kind assistance in advance.

I have an extra hard drive on my Dell 8400 XP home machine. I is formatted
in 4 partitions. I have cleaned up & emptied one of the partitions ( call it
Drive E ) in perperation for reusing it for a different function. There is
one file left on Drive E called c3122670bfe7524781515c6bc

It contains 4 files

Common
Sp1
Sp2
xpsp1hfm.exe

The 1st 3 files are empty ( or so reports my computer ), but I receive an
"Access Denied Error" if I try to open,move,copy or delete them. I understand
this file has something to do with the service packs but I dont know why its
on this drive. My OS is on Drive C . Although, I was using this drive ( Drive
E ) to run programs from but never the OS.

My question now is are these files required somewhere ? I am able to delete
them ( Im sure they will delete on reboot ) but before I do I want to make
sure they are not needed. If they are needed how do I go about copying them
to the drive with my OS ?


Again thanx

 

[seth]

looks like that folder was left over and not deleted following a windows or
manual update
i've seen that before; you install a patch/service pack and it creates a
long temporary directory when extracting the files
it's ok to delete

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Description of dual-mode update packages for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=328848

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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