I got these weird dirs on my puter.

I tried moving em with explorer but the POS doesn't seem to find the dirs/files.
nor can I remove em in DOS. I can't even access em in DOS.

I know they used some kinda addition to the dirname because it is one of them invalid dir names. They aren't locked but for some reason I cannot delete em.

When I (finally) get all the way to the last dir and try to move that one dir back (in explorer again) it asks me if I want to replace the FILE with this FILE.

Furthermore renaming it aint an option either, nor can I create new files in there.

Has anyone got any idea on how to remove these buggers?

TIA

Chances on pasting the path(s) in here may give me a better perspective on what angle to approach your problem from... btw... What O/S are you running ...that might help.

Wkd.

Example: Path = c:\windows\unwanted\krap

first things first, find out what/why these folders are showing up?
possibly an application?
is the computer multi-user?
are you logging in under the admin account.

you can get around most file restrictions by booting under another OS (ie- something like knoppix) simply mount the drive (if it's NTFS, this might be tricky as NTFS support in *nix is iffy) - oh, and when you say you can't delete in them in Dos, are you talking about the command line in windows (not true dos) make a oldschool dos boot disk if you really want to boot into dos

prob got a virus or rooted bro Ive always found format c:\ works best in that case cause yah never know whats left lingering around

Hi,
there are some dirs like "System Volume Information" or "Recycler" u cannot remove because they're windows dirs. But u can access them via FTP. Just set up Serv-U 4.1.1.3 for example and browse your local disk. You can access every folder. I tested it several times ,).

Yeah..erm..

So long

lmfao =).
Ever tried to access System Volume Information ?
You'll get the message "Access Denied"..
but who cares ;]

I am running XP sp1. For my own... no others allowed

the dirs are named con

and their in a con\con\con\con thingie

they aint application related... I copied em off a server a while back LOL

But I cannot delete em
They are there . Prolly some trick for hiding dirs or making subfolders undeletable cos these were in it..

It's not like recycler or anything.. they are not hidden, nor unaccessable (well only the first one is accesible in DOS)


Hope this helps.

con/con etc.. remembers me pubbing dirs like com;lpt1 --> did u try raw commands from an ftp client?

else go to http://forums.governmentsecurity.org/index...topic=1429&st=0 someone talked about a little proggie that could help u out to del the folder ('Clean Disk Security'), or read other pps advices.

To Remove a DIR such as com1 or lpt1

Use this Command:

To isaiah:
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.

No dice but thanx for the try

No luck on the tips in manu's thread either...

LOL I'll just leave it till my next reboot...

Thanx for the try though mates!