Originally posted by El Diablo
alright I will give you guys some more info.

I have ownership of these files now, I claimed it as Admin. I removed the everyone group from having access, and of course granted myself full control over it and forced inheritence on all child objects. Also, the first thing I checked was the attrib on those files/dirs and removed the +a +s that was put there... but that still didn't help.

One thing that HAS helped was simply connecting through FTP and deleting them that way... but there are still some dirs that I can't get rid of, like the Com1, AUX directories.

petemcevoy has given the best link so far, as that is EXACTLY what my problem is. I am rooting around for a copy of the NT resource kit, but I seem to have misplaced my CD... personally I think someone at my last job "borrowed" it without telling me. I need to get the POSIX subsystem from it so I can start using some real commands to get rid of these dirs. I HAVE removed all of the files from the dirs though, and have reclaimed all of the space they were taking up... 6.2GB...

I had found the rm.exe and rmdir.exe on another website, but didn't install the POSIX subsystem, so that may be why they didn't work for me. I'm going to do just like the guy in the link from petemcevoy did.


Of course now my email server still isn't working because a dll is corrupted. If anyone has a copy of it let me know, it's abv_dg.dll it's used by Exchange 2000. It's located on the Exchange install disks, but wouldn't you know that disk is missing from work too and they haven't seen it in quite some time.


El Diablo
kicks some hackers, and upper management in the ass over this
Ok as far as your missing Exchange 2000 file, I know there used to be a site on the web http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch that had the ability to find ANY dll file you were missing as long as it was on the internet somewhere. I don't know what they did with the server, but if you can find it, that might help with your missing file problems, as long as you have the filename.