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Hi Dave,<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
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<pre wrap="">If you boot the machine from a Windows XP
CD and enter the recovery console, can you
delete the file?
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I haven't tried this yet, but will try to get to it tonight.
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How did that go?<br>
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<pre wrap="">If you fire up Norton Ghost
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ok—- so here's some data I didn't put in my initial message. The only real
backup software I've worked with is Maxtor's Maxblast, a free copy that
came with a Maxtor drive. It is supposedly smart enough about NTFS to know
whether it can do "logical" backups or sector-by-sector backups. It can
create a C drive image without complaint, and browsing that image, I can
enter the problem folder and see the file I can't delete. Maxblast can
even restore the whole image without complaint, but with the same outcome
on the C drive when I'm done. A look at disk defragmenter graphics before
and after the restore suggests Maxblast was doing a logical file rebuild,
but I suppose it could switch back and forth as needed... And
unfortunately, there's no "restore everything but" option.
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You might be able to get rid of the offending folders/files with Ghost
Explorer which lets you edit a .GHO image file.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Can you find a version of WINFILE.EXE (the
old Windows NT file manager) from Windows NT
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Have not tried this. Any suggestions where I might such a thing that would
run under XP?
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I think WINFILE.EXE is not in XP or newer. You would have to have a
copy of Windows NT around or else maybe try googling it to see if you
can download it from somewhere.<br>
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<pre wrap="">the reason I mention Ghost is because it's had
really good NTFS support just about from the beginning.
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Thanks for this recommendation. If nothing else works I may get to this.
My gut level is to ignore the whole thing. I'm just worried that with all
the multiply-hard-linked files I'm seeing that something else is wrong.
Whether any of this is left over from the virus cleaning I have no idea. I
have another laptop with XP and a copy of Fedora loaded on it that I
should be able to get running tonight. I'll see whether that produces any
interesting comparisons.
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I think if CHKDSK does not make any changes then the disk is probably
OK, it's just in a state where you can't modify that using the command
line tools you have. Microsoft does not expose every aspect of their
API to everyone nor do they necessarily provide any way to access it.
I suspect this is probably the case for you.<br>
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Jim<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.net/">http://www.ockers.net/</a>
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