Here's a hint

Post #4,759 by pwhysall 8/12/01 5:03:33 PM Reply	Here's a hint Unless you really, REALLY know what you're doing, don't go ANYWHERE near an NTFS volume with a sector editor. NTFS is a proper filing system, with all sorts of things you didn't know it had, like streams, metadata journalling, per-file compression, encryption, hidden files and all sorts of other horrors. It's not terribly well documented, natch. It's not FAT16 with long filenames and permissions, that's fer shure. Fix the problem with the tools at hand - that's CHKDSK, basically. If it were me? Well, firstly I'd be seriously fascinated as to how such a file could come into existence and some serious poring over the system logs would be done. (I had a brief play with this - I could not create a file anywhere in my filesystems called "COM1", either from an application or the command line). Then I'd back up the volume with the exception of that one file, format it, and restore. -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #4,825 by Ashton 8/13/01 12:20:39 AM Reply	Thanks for that tip.. I missed Bill's later comment that it was NTFS (though I don't know fersure how ept are RIX tools - nor if they apply only to NT on FAT, and would automatically abort re NTFS) Anyway - I hadn't realized that NTFS was both that 'rich' / complex and er.. undocumented. At least I know now, why never to 'try' from naive sector-fix results for FAT :[ A. waiting for charm + color to be added to 'bits' - for 3D holographic storage of files with smells and angst
Post #4,842 by dpeterson 8/13/01 8:44:14 AM Reply	FYI: Creating COM1 file I had a brief play with this - I could not* create a file anywhere in my filesystems called "COM1", either from an application or the command line* "dir > \\\\.\\c:\\temp\\com1" Using the "\\\\" let me create "com1" files and variations. Darryl A. Peterson I'm not as funny as I think I am.
Post #4,847 by pwhysall 8/13/01 9:45:04 AM Reply	Thanks. I will play on a non-critical partition :) -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #4,868 by boxley 8/13/01 12:35:43 PM Reply	the double slash \\\\ fools NT into thinking it is another machine so dont check for local reserved names. Delete should work except that it is not "com1" it is "com1 " and del doesnt understand the space and wildcards cant catch it either. Will be creating a linux box s I can have a useful ftp server that doesnt need to be patched every week. Also anon will be locked out. Unfortunate for the customers but convenience of not remembering passwords is less than the unconvenience of french people using your hard drive for their nefarious french designs. :) thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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