Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/24/16:06:51
Bill Klein (wklein AT acs DOT ryerson DOT ca) wrote:
: I have some directories whose corrupted names contain
: symbols like smiley fact, heart, spade or paragraph. Is there any way to delete these items
: without reformating the disk? I have the DOS commands rename, erase, delete and
: deltree with no success. Thanks,
Couple o' things to try:
1. Use delete, type in the strange characters (using ALT+nnn)
2. Run Scandisk (MSDOS), Diskfix (PCTOOLS), or an equivalent
3. Using a tool like Norton's Diskedit, manually remove the entries
from the FAT.
4. Backup to tape, "format c:". The Ultimate Uninstall (TM) ;)
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