TurboTuna Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) [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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade1269 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboTuna Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 I can't move it, i cant delete it, i cant do anything with it within windows, DOS or ERD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmdixon Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboTuna Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmdixon Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 cool! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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