Re: heavy duty file/dir tool 4 windoze?

I think you can use killbox without the backup files option.
Or on the Kubuntu disk simply select safe graphics mode, and you should
avoid the graphics corruption, it is probably an unknown video card.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Fri, January 2, 2009 9:29 pm, Morgan Storey wrote:
> > 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 Sun, January 4, 2009 12:48 am, Ben wrote:
> > Knoppix (aka the easy way to get a bootcd with ntfs-3g going)
>
> On Fri, January 2, 2009 5:43 pm, Owen Townend wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Owen, Ben, Morgan, thanks
>
> killbox made an xcopy of all 14GB, before crashing itself
> (luckily, the copied 14GB deleted OK)
>
> I'll try killbox with a smaller subset
>
> BartPE boots but both of it's two file utilities fail to delete
>
> UBCD I didn't have, I'll d/l and try
>
> Knoppix (I only had version 3 with me) wouldn't boot, hanged half way
> (I d/l 5.1 since, but haven't tried as yet)
>
> Kubuntu (latest version) booted to corrupted video, can not see anything
>
> this is a wide screen toshiba, I guess the problem with Knoppix/Kubuntu is
> video driver ?
> I guess there is a boot time video option(s) that I'm not aware of ?
>
>
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