Deleting Corrupted Files

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Allen Heim

I have a number of files on my Windows 2000 server that I
cannot delete. Some of them have names with strange
characters and some do not. This stems from a problem we
had about a year ago when our RAID controller went down.
We were able to reinstall the operating system on the C:
drive and recover the data from the D: and E: drives;
however, there were some files that were corrupted and I
am unable to erase them. How can I erase them?
 
I have a number of files on my Windows 2000 server that I
cannot delete. Some of them have names with strange
characters and some do not. This stems from a problem we
had about a year ago when our RAID controller went down.
We were able to reinstall the operating system on the C:
drive and recover the data from the D: and E: drives;
however, there were some files that were corrupted and I
am unable to erase them. How can I erase them?
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Suggestion: try the short (8.3) names from the command prompt:

dir/x (to find out the 8.3 name that corresponds to the long names)
del shortnam.ext

you may need to change some attributes with attrib -r -s -h

Enjoy,

E
 
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