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 01:25:10 GMT

Thanks Dave already tried that. She no worked!

"Dave Patrick" <mail@NoSpam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in message
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> From a command prompt try;
>
> del \\.\Drive:\directory\filename
> (Note: the period between \\ and \)
>
> Also
>
> dir /x
> and try deleting them using their 8.3 short names.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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>
> <randy.d@rogers.com> wrote:
> |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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