re: unable to delete a file
Monday, November 11, 2002 at 12:06 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ron
(53 messages posted)
The problem isn't caused by NTFS. This same type of problem happens on FAT partitions
as well. It's likely that when the program crashed and you rebooted, the entry in
the registry that "says" that the file is in use did not get removed or the file
attribute is set to system. Which means you may need to edit the registry. Try
scanreg /restore at the command prompt if that doesn't work, you may need to edit
it manually. Regarding your thought of reverting back to FAT, I wouldn't. The only
way to "convert" is to reformat the drive and reinstall everything.
On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 11:03 pm, p.prk wrote:
>yesterday i tried to fix a bad indexed divx .avi . it was like 600Mb in size and
>the divfix program hung up at one time so i had to reboot. when restarted and tried
>to delete the file i got "Cannot delete [file] : It is being used by another person
>or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." after
>which the explorer started to act wickedly - slowed down, hang up ... i tried rebooting
>in safe mode, logging as an administrator and deleting the file, alas with no success.
>so now i'm feeling helpless stuck with an useless 600Mb file on my system partition
>which is small enough to afford the luxury of keeping and not minding the bastard
>(.avi). ntfs here/i even started thinking of converting back to fat32, booting from
>a diskette and trying removing the file, but that would take much time/need much
>space, and i'm not even sure how to convert back to fat32 [glimpsed at the ntfs>fat32
>thread and the waters there were unknown to me]. so any/all help would be highly
>appreciated.
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