Re: Orphaned directories, how can I delete them??

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randy.d_at_rogers.com
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 01:26:35 GMT

Thanks Mike I was travelling down this road to!
"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" <mikeros@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4137a81b$1@news.microsoft.com...
> Hi Randy,
>
> Have dealt with customer in the past that have used this article with
> great
> success. Give it a try and post back to the newsgroup if it help your
> scenario or not.
>
> 120716 How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=120716
>
> --
> Hope this helps,
> Mike Rosado
> Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
> Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
> Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> <randy.d@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:O1ztBNSkEHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> I am stupid. I admit it !!
>>
>> I have a server runing Win2K Adv. server and was running it wide open to
> the
>> internet for web stuff I was fooling around with. In the course of time
> some
>> ftp deamon or worm got into the machine and has hijacked a shared folder
>> that had some of the test bed stuff in. I am able to drop to a command
>> prompt and forcefully delete all the files (There were a few good movies
> in
>> there!!) but I cannot delete the folders that were created. some of the
>> folders are un-named(or are in some other file system structure) and
> others
>> have all kinds of other weird creations like "LPT1" and "COM1" to
>> chararcters of different kinds.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a utility to remove these ophaned directories. I
> remember
>> the old Norton commander used to take care of these things in the 8.3
> world
>> but not sure what can do it for NTFS, I have tried a few Linux ported
> tools
>> to no avail !! There are like 21000 direcories and subs.
>>
>> Any suggestions ??
>>
>> Signed: thick as a brick
>>
>>
>
>

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