Undeletable File With Really Long Filename

[TurboTuna]

[PROBLEM SOLVED]

Well, the problem is exactly as the topic states. I just got my laptop back from my brother and there's a picture on the desktop with some stupidly long name containing profanity (hence the blurred out file name). Heres a picture:

If I right click the file, this is all I see:

If I press delete nothing happens, if I press F2 to rename, nothing happens. I'm lost, I Tried ERD commander, various Linux distros and even ntfsdos nothing can delete it. Any ideas?

Edited January 16, 2007 by TurboTuna

[blade1269]

hey,

do you have a spare drive, can you move the file? if you can, make a small partition 1 gig transfer it and format the part, if you have the space or use a thumb drive...

[TurboTuna]

I can't move it, i cant delete it, i cant do anything with it within windows, DOS or ERD.

[bmdixon]

Not sure if this will help but try this:

open a cmd prompt and go to the desktop

then type "subst z: ." (you can use any free letter instead of z)

then you can use z: as a drive

i know this won't help with the long filename but it might be because the whole filename (including directory's) is too long.

[TurboTuna]

Not sure if this will help but try this:

open a cmd prompt and go to the desktop

then type "subst z: ." (you can use any free letter instead of z)

then you can use z: as a drive

i know this won't help with the long filename but it might be because the whole filename (including directory's) is too long.

HA! IT worked! I feel so stupid now :blush: (Y) Thanks alot

[bmdixon]

cool! :D