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Posted by wayne on 08/30/06 22:15
cwdjrxyz wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> For your situation Windows may be locking the file thinking some process
>> is currently accessing it. Have you tried chkdsk from the Recovery
>> Console? Since in Recovery Console your in a pseudo-DOS it can solve
>> such locking issues. Another option is to slave the drive to another
>> system and check the disk that way...
>
> Thanks for the 2 suggestions. I don't have another suitable system to
> slave the drive to. However using the Recovery Console likely will be
> possible.
>
> I have started looking at the registry, and I have found something
> interesting there. Looking at
> HKEY_Current_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603\ there
> are 4 key entries with numbers as names, all of type REG_SZ and with
> data values of the type MOVIE.mpg, .mpg, MOVIE, and .vob . However a
> search of the C-drive turns up only the Ghost file "MOVIE" of zero byte
> size. There was a MOVIE.mpg file at one time when the file was being
> processed to convert to .vob and other DVD files, and the computer
> crashed when doing this. I am considering deleting the MOVIE.mpg, .mpg,
> and .vob keys one at a time to see if this helps. Of course I will
> backup up the registry and set a restore point just before doing this
> each time. It appears that the icon for the ghost file is under control
> of the MOVIE key. The MOVIE.mpg key might be pointing to some other
> data used by defrag that was not deleted after recovery from the crash,
> so the defrag report still thinks it has a 4 GB movie file, but of
> course fails to defrag it if it is not there. This is just a wild
> guess.
>
It looks like your server could be Linux based, is this correct? If so,
you could delete the directory that the file is in (I believe that was
your original intention) with rm -rf path/directory
rm is remove and -rf means recursive (everything inside the directory)
and force (do it even if there are errors).
hth
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