can't remove a folder

Devroush · Rated PG Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 15

I used partition magic 8 to merge tWo partitions into eachother. While merging, pm suddenly refused to continue. As a result, one partition was deleted.
The data was supposed to be stored in a folder on the other partition. But since things went wrong, I can't access that folder. Not a disaster, but I can't remove the folder, even after a restart.
Is there a program that can fix this?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:01:31 Post Subject:

What OS?

SAMSAMHA · Rated NC-17 Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 112

try to restart the system and then delete the folder, sometime that work fine.

Devroush · Rated PG Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 15

win xp, and a simple restart doesn't help Sad

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:28:57 Post Subject:

have you tried deleting it from command prompt? I know XP only has "pretend DOS", but you are still able to do a lot of things the old fashioned way that you can't really do in Windows...just an idea.

ZeroNeo · Rated PG Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

You could try to delete it in the windows safe mode, just restard the computer and press F8 before windows boot.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:14:55 Post Subject:

delete it in dos...on the 98 computers at school you can make a folder and if you name it alt + 255, it generates what looks like a space but isnt...widnows cant delete it unless you delte it form dos...that might work its worth a shot.

T-shirt · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:28:06 Post Subject:

safe mode or recovery console is your best bet.
what haxor '... describes is a "Nul" character, not a space or a zero, OK as a password, even works in a file/folder name, but frequently used to hide/protect files/directories within windows.
I'm afraid your data may be FUBAR, PM works well.....when it works, when it screws up, start praying and call tech support

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:01:16 Post Subject:

You can try to take ownership of the directory.

Right click on the folder, choose proprites, go to the security tab, click the advance button, go to owner, hilight the account your on and click apply (or ok)

Devroush · Rated PG Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 15

deleting in dos doesn't work - he can't FIND the folder ...
taking ownership doesn't work either, I can't find were to change that Bang Head