Re: heavy duty file/dir tool 4 windoze?

2009/1/2 Voytek Eymont <[email protected]>:
> I have an XP system with some user dirs/files that somehow are marked as
> read only/hidden/system, and, I can not remove or delete them.
>
> untagging readonly or other attribs doesn't stick;
> command line 'attrib' doesn't seem to work either
> files only have 'read/execute' selected, can not enable other attribs,
>
> booting in 'safe mode' as 'administrator' doesn't help;
>
> booting with BartPE and using the two file utilities that come with BartPE
> doesn't work
>
> any suggestions how to remove these files/directories ?
>
> --
> Voytek

Hey,
 Have you tried a non-windows boot disk such as an Ubuntu live-cd and
used ntfs-3g to mount and 'attack' the files from there?
 There's also the option of building a Windows Live cd[0] and trying
it from there.

cheers,
Owen.

[0] You can use Bart PE
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
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