Re: heavy duty file/dir tool 4 windoze?

I have used killbox http://killbox.net/ in the past to some good effect.
I would also suggest something like a Livecd to delete it, or UBCD, or a
windows PE disk, like BartPE, but that brings in icky licensing issues.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Owen Townend <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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