Cannot delete files in win2k

[natgas]

I have one machine that has Win2k installed and it has approximately 15 files in the root directory named "pagepage.pag", yes, all of them are named the same! I cannot delete them no matter what I do--they are each 1.2MB and I have tried both in and out of Win to delete them but can not access the attributes to change them. Any suggestions?? thx

 

[Noirish]

I don't know if that's possible to have several files of the same name...
Anyway, can't you just do delete in a pure dos environment?
I know you can go to dos by pressing f8 during bootup.
I don't know if this applies to win2k though.

 

[Evil69er]

I don't have this problem, but I have a followup question related to it.

How do you access an NTFS drive from dos?
It's not like the old days where you just type c:\
It has no letter assignment.

So , what you were trying to tell him, how would he delete those files from out of the win2k environment?

 

[zetter]

Natgas: Can you delete them with a wild-card spec from a DOS window, eg del *.pag.

Evil96er: You can access NTFS partitions from DOS if you use a third-party addon like NTFSDOS from Systems Internals. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntfs30.htm

 

[ThurzNite]

If u can't wild card them, try to rename them in explorer. Also run scan disk cuz it's not supposed to have the same name, as u stated.
Jay

 

[ThurzNite]

ntfsdos.exe won't let u write to a ntfs partition, right? at least at work I couldn't. Maybe there's another ver?
Jay

 

[puffpio]

you can't
does doesn't support NTFS
you'll probalby want to install the emergeny console something or other (comes w/ win2k) and it will let u use a command line type thingy on boot