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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Deleting the undeletable
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.103814.8505@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 13 Mar 91 10:38:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar07.225104.27985@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1991Mar07.225104.27985@ddsw1.MCS.COM> whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes:
>the disk.  I finally used PCtools's VIEW/EDIT (D)isk function, which did not
>look at the tree, only the raw data.  I found the offending subdir's name in
>the FAT, and put a hex code E5 in place of the first letter of the name.
>(Hex E5 is the greek lowercase sigma, an "o" with a line on the top : e)
>

But if this subdirectory has files in it then doing this will screw up
your disk. Not recomended kiddies.