Forced delete using dos - how?

[PsyWulf]

I've tried all dos suggestions above, including myworld & nods suggestions.

nothing. Doesnt budge.

Deltree the folder?

 

[Boodles]

Nod i'll look into your links...

PsyWulf, deltree is not in cmd.

Is that only available at bootup?

 

[PsyWulf]

Eek never noticed they took it out from CMD

hmmm

cd Progra~1
cd Foxits~1
del Foxit Reader

Barring that get a Win98 bootdisk and put deltree.exe on it ( available from alotta sites to download )


*edit - try this

SUMMARY: A Windows 2000 or Windows XP replacement for the Deltree command can be found here.

You may remember that some versions of DOS had a DELTREE command to remove a directory as well as all of its subdirectories and contained files. Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not have this command, but you can emulate it with the RD (RMDIR) command.

For example, the following Windows 2000 or Windows XP DOS command deletes the C:\BLAH directory and all subdirectories WITHOUT ANY WARNING:

RD C:\BLAH /S /Q

Use this command with caution! One slip-up and you could accidentally delete important files from your hard drive.

 

[MyWorld]

Okay, just saw that there is some wear characters in the filename ( ? ) so try what I said again, but this time use tab completion.

When you have killed explorer.exe do the following on the cmd window:

dir * <-to list everything and make sure you are in the right tree
del ?? <TAB> <-- hit the TAB button after the first few ?? to complete the file name exactly.

If this fails, then put the filename in " " and try again.

 

[Boodles]

Ok - i've done it.

Man, frikkin longhaul pain in the bum this was.

Thanks for everyones help.

Guess what - i have ubuntu installed on other partition - and simply deleted it from there. Boy, that was easy.

I wanted to try it from ubuntu earlier but i was having probs getting into it. So i just upgraded to gutsy and Volia. Easy peasy

 

[sn3rd]

UPGRADED to Gutsy?!!? So you were running Fiesty or Dapper?? Lol!

Glad it's sorted though!

 

[Boodles]

Think it was 704 i was running.. not sure of that ones name though.

 

[HavocXphere]

lol @ solution.

I'm sure Dos can do it though. I had 100% the same problem a year back. Mp3's with a bunch of greek/russian/whatever characters in them names that wouldn't budge.