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- From: Chris.Graham@f344.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Chris Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: I can't delete these read-only files! Help
- Message-ID: <726901942.AA03018@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 12:29:46
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- b> From: baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal)
- b> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- b> After using chkdisk i get some sort of an error about a certain directory
- b> that is screwed up. I tried to do a chkdsk /f . No good, it sais the
- b> disk is locked by some other application.
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- Yes, the operating system itself.
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- b> if you have one partition you're screwed? I tried attrib. That won't
- b> work becuase the files are ascii codes and even after using an editor to
- b> figure outthe codes the attrib command still didnt'work. the direcotry
- b> sais these messed up files are taking up 3.9 gig of my 87 meg hard drive.
- b> Really cute there. How will i get rid of these files?
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- It sounds like your running on an HPFS partition. If not its the same anyway.
- Simply boot off floppy and run check disk from a floppy. NOTE do NOT switch to
- your drive and run it locally, as that will lock the drive as well. If
- necessary copy chkdsk to a floppy and run it from there.
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- -Chris
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- * Origin: WarpSpeed Computers BBS - Home of Windows Chess (3:632/344)
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