PCR
Thu Feb 28 21:45:44 PST 2008
PCR wrote:
| Oliver Walter wrote:
|| In message <OpA4LRbeIHA.4744@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, PCR
|| <pcrrcp@netzero.net> writes
|| ...
||>Have you tried it in DOS. Try it first in Windows DOS (in a box). If
||>that fails, you must boot to True DOS & do it there...
|
| ...snip
||>Post your results. If it fails, you must be sent to True DOS for it.
||
|| OK, thanks for the suggestions. "Done that", didn't work - neither
|| DOS box under Windows nor with DOS (Win98 rescue disk) booted from
|| Floppy. Here's what it looked like in the DOS box (and the pure
|| Floppy DOS was virtually identical, but the folder name "Computing"
|| had to be the 8.3 name "Comput~1"):
|
| It is good you knew how to try it off the floppy. I am perplexed it
| did not work. You could try (as Dulak suggested) to investigate &
| change the attributes of the folder...
|
| ATTRIB -H -S -R -A E:\Computing\PC\Linux\Win-Ux
|
| However, I had already done the investigation, & its attributes didn't
| matter on my test file. OTOH...
|
| DELTREE E:\Comput~1\PC\Linux\Win-Ux
|
| ...is surely worth a try. If it works, it deletes the folder & all
| files inside it, which is only one.
Oops, to be sure there is only one file in that folder before you
DELTREE it, you must use the /a switch...
DIR /a E:\Comput~1\PC\Linux\Win-Ux
In Windows Explorer, to see hidden files, you must...
"START button, Settings, Folder Options, View tab",
& bolt "Show all files"; & may as well uncheck
"Hide file extensions..." too.
| Or, include the file name...
|
| DELTREE E:\Comput~1\PC\Linux\Win-Ux\E--APPRO.PRI
|
| ...to get just the file. (But usually just DEL is used to delete a
| file to avoid mishap.)
|
|| E:\Computing\PC\Linux\Win-Ux>dir/s
||
|| Volume in drive E is USER 6GB
|| Volume Serial Number is 4079-89CF
||
|| Directory of E:\Computing\PC\Linux\Win-Ux
||
|| . <DIR> 27/03/07 21:45 .
|| .. <DIR> 27/03/07 21:45 ..
|| E--APPRO PRI 0 27/02/08 13:35 E--APPRO.PRI
|| 1 file(s) 0 bytes
||
|| Total files listed:
|| 1 file(s) 0 bytes
|| 2 dir(s) 3,175.85 MB free
||
|| E:\Computing\PC\Linux\Win-Ux>attrib *.*
|| A R E--APPRO.PRI E:\computing\pc\linux\win-ux\E--APPRO.PRI
||
|| E:\Computing\PC\Linux\Win-Ux>attrib -a -r e--appro.pri
|| Access denied - e--appro.pri
|
| Yow! Why!?
|
|| (there are no other files in that folder despite its possibly
|| interesting name.)
|| "access denied" every time.
|
| It's worth trying as Dulak said, above.
|
|| I imagine if I really want to be rid of this file I'll need to back
|| up the partition to another partition and/or CD, then reformat this
|| partition and copy back all files except this one. At present this
|| file is no worse than a tiny nuisance because I know it's there.
|
| Maybe Linux or some other 3rd party app will be able to get it.
|
| (a) Is it just E--APPRO.PRI that can't be accessed?
| Or can it be the whole E:\partition is inaccessible?
|
| (b) Do you ever create files with Linux, & are they
| normally fully accessible to Windows & DOS?
|
|| --
|| Oliver
|| (replies to the "Reply-to:" address will reach me;
|| unless spam is sent to it, after which all its mail will
|| be discarded}.
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| Should things get worse after this,
| PCR
| pcrrcp@netzero.net
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net