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Thread ID: 44017	2004-04-04 05:35:00	The case of the careless mistake, and the file that refuses to die........	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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227068	2004-04-04 05:35:00	Hi Team While doing a wine-induced rave to the rellies on Friday night, espousing the virtues of drive-imaging as a cure for their perpetual finger trouble problems, I foolishly started a backup of my data drive to show how easy it was to do. A minor and unnoticed slip of the fingers saw me compressing more files than the available disk space could handle, so when (much later) Ghost asked for the address of the next media for spanning, I cancelled out. Now I have a partially completed image that refuses to allow me to delete it. I've tried everything I can think of, down to booting to the C: prompt with a DOS boot disk and trying to delete from there but no dice. How do I delete this unwanted 2GB file? It is giving the rellies a good laugh at my expense, but I don't really mind that, what I really need is my disk space back. I have the PCW Knoppix disk here somewhere (what year/month was that?) and I'll try that if anybody can tell me what to do step by step as I the only thing I know about Linux is how to spell it. Cheers Billy 8-{) :(	Billy T (70)
227069	2004-04-04 05:55:00	sorry to say, but knoppix won't do any good whatsoever. it only reads the hd, not write, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. you could try slackware live, or mandrake move, but knoppix wont help	Megaman (344)
227070	2004-04-04 06:01:00	gidday Billy Knoppix is on the ( well my copy anyway ) October 2002 NZ PC World cd. if you pc can boot of CDs then chuck the knoppix cd in and reboot the pc. eventually you pc will no-longer be an uber doze based pc but a 'nix beastie. The 'nix gui is alot like windows, so you shouldn't have much problem navigating to the file and deleting it - assuming knoppix mounted your drive with the file on it? ie if the file isn't on C? :)	zminos (5010)
227071	2004-04-04 06:09:00	Well, I have the October 2002 PCW-CD but I take the point that it can't write to the disk (makes sense really). I thought about renaming the file, but I reckon whatever is protecting it will deny access for renaming as well. BTW, it is not write protected or anything silly like that.:( I don't see why DOS can't delete it, so can anybody explain how this can be? Cheers Billy 8-{) ?:|	Billy T (70)
227072	2004-04-04 06:17:00	system restore?	Megaman (344)
227073	2004-04-04 06:26:00	Assuming your data is in a separate partition, and that the unwanted immortal image is in that partition, then one sledge-hammer way would be to copy/clone/ghost or what have you, all your wanted data files to another spare hard drive. Then try formatting the data partition, if that removes the image file, you could then restore your wanted data from the spare hard drive.	Terry Porritt (14)
227074	2004-04-04 06:44:00	yeah I forgot that you can't write or delete files with the knoppix cd till after I posted. but it got me thinking.... :D how about using a 'nix boot floppy? I use mine for changing Admin passwords, but it's worth a go. :)	zminos (5010)
227075	2004-04-04 06:46:00	What's your file system, FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Other??	rugila (214)
227076	2004-04-04 06:52:00	Thanks Terry Problem is, the data drive image resides on my C: drive and although I do have an almost-current image of the C: drive that I could overwrite with, writing any image back to disk carries with it a degree of risk that the rewrite will fail so my fist preference is to eliminate the offending file. Since I only need to delete the file entry, not the data you'd think it would be a simple job. So how does file get so well protected that DOS can't eliminate it? It is obviously not the DOS naming or write protection, so it must be something about the addressing or some-such Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
227077	2004-04-04 07:04:00	uh what's the file extension billy? :)	zminos (5010)
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