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sugaman. Thanks and glad to hear you're cleaned up. I guess we all have to determine what value is. Before I pay $250 for a license to remove some files, I'd either wipe the HDD and reload or buy a new PC. (one can get a Dell P4, 3Ghz complete system for $469.) Never mind that we still don't...

Sheilae Thanks for the tip. I downloaded and tried it. It removed a couple of folders but can't touch the others. Error messages indicate the inability to delete a full folder but it also couldn't access and open the folders. This stuff has a tough shell.

CorvetteZ0606 I've already tried everything you did or will try. Here's the scoop. try this wipefile software Abylon Shredder: http://www.abylonsoft.com/. I installed this and was able to recover MOST of the space consumed on the HDD. However, even when using the 'X' switch to see long file...

Hey camma......did u see my last post? I can't seem to get the POSIX util to function in the XP environment. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

gamma: this is good stuff. I'm progressing thru your suggested process. when I searched for POSIX I found many posts from users with the same problem..file structure, etc. Question is, I'm running XP Pro and don't seem to be able to D/L the Intel NT util. Following the install process I get...

eyec: the Wipefile util was able to remove some of the files but not all. It is approximately what I was able to do via DOS commands the first time I found the intruder. Bad news is it will grow and spread again. Dimandja: Thanks for checking on this for me. As mentioned above, this file wiper...

yes..thanks for the cautionary msg. here's how smart this infestationn is. when I type del *.* from the top of a dir tree the standard reply is 'are u sure Y/N?' I type 'y' and enter. Instead of executing the command this is returned: 'del c:\*.* Y/N?' , which would, of course wipe the...

yes...have tried all wild card options...*.*, and c*.*, etc. doesn't work. evenn drying to delete the folder named 'com1' with [del com1] returns an error tht it coesn't exist; using [del com1*.*] results in a line break that appears to have accepted the command but the dir is still there.

Dimandja: there is a filder on a partition of my HD named 'killed' it is 5.47GB in size and has 1 subFolder: 'ftproot'. it contains 402 files and 898 folders. The attribute for this is Read Only. I've tried removind that attrib but it seems to open a dialog showing progress but doesn't really do...

thanks again for the latest suggestions. eyec: this command set/syntax doesn't do what is necessary. it never enables navigation to the c: drive. it does list the path as c: following entering the command then typing PATH but, still cant navigate or point to c:. Dimandja: I'm running XP Pro/...

Thank you all for your advice. However, nothing works. When I boot from floppy, I can't change directories to get to the path where the folders live. This is a large group of empty folders, with and without names or attributes. some folders have long sub dir structure, again with names, no...

eyec: thanks for the reply. when booting from dos disk (floppy) I can't navigate away from that drive. any attempt to change directory returns an error. is the bot disk missing something?

Inadvertantly got some junk (apparently non-destructive) sitting on my HDD taking up lots of space. I know where most if not all of it lives but can't delete it. I got most of it via cmd line del /f command but after a few weeks it's all back. Have used 5 dif utils and none even scratch the...