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

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From: !SpamMe (a_at_b.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:14:47 GMT

<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
>
>

How hard is it for you to reformat the whole HD partition, taking into an
accouint of backing up the needed files? OTOH, I usually remove such
directory with its contents and if the directory had a weird name, I
preceeded it with a `"' followed by the first few characters of the
directory name, hit a TAB key for completion, and ending the line with a
"/s" before hitting the return key. When prompted, I just pressed "y" to
confirm the deletion of the directory along with its contents. 

--
Mazi