Deleting a directory with a colon in the name

Moredhel · 19 Oct 2007 at 10:27

Somehow a program has created a directory with a colon in it's name, wile NTFS supports it, Windows doesn't and starts screaming about it as soon as I try and remove it. Is there any easy way to remove it without having to download and burn a livecd for some kind of linux distro and use NTFS-3g to delete it?

uv · 19 Oct 2007 at 10:37

tbh, you should always have a live-cd burnt and ready on your desk 'just-in-case'

ic1male · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:04

Will the command prompt let you do it if you use the old 8.3 name for the folder in question? You can find the old 8.3 name by doing a DIR /X in the command prompt.

Moredhel · 19 Oct 2007 at 11:34

Nice one ic1male. I'd completely forgotten you could do that, thanks.