re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk
Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 7:22 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alex R
(1 messages posted)
thank you very much, your tip helped me with same problem, it was causing backup
errors for a very long time.
On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 11:34 pm, Karl Fife wrote:
>
>Indeed I was hacked too. This thread gave me only HALF of the solution. The OTHER
>HALF goes like this:
>
>Levels upon levels of undeleteable garbage directories
>
>c:\inetpub\ftproot\[noname]\fbjc;;;;\fbjx;;;;\...
>
>First I issued a del *.* /f /s/q as suggested by someone on this thread. This
command
>cascaded through the directories and deleted the files without prompting.
>
>BUT
>The empty directories were still there and they could not be deleted/renamed/copied/moved
>using windows explorer. Furthermore, the directory did not have a name in dos,
so
>I could not even remove (rd) or change (cd) to the folder because I couldn't name
>it! Hundreds of levels and hundreds of items on each level.
>
>The solution was to issue a rd /s command from the parent directory.
>
>In my example:
>c:\inetpub\ftproot\[noname]\fbjc;;;;\fbjx;;;;\... and so on
>
>from the c:\inetpub\ directory I issued the command rd ftproot /s.
>Presto!
>
>If only I could issue a RH /P /AK command
>(remove hacker /permanent /with ass kicking)
>
>
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