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Jun 14, 2002, 3:38pm

Greetings! (As a good friend would put it)

Im wondering if someone who is more of a expert than I with folders in XP
could explain how to deleted 2 phantom folders I have placed on my HD named
"Disk 1" and "Disk 2". They were created when I made small program to read
all the information off large numbers of Floppy Disks so you didnt have to
drag and drop all the files between The floppy and the HD.

In the process it creates various folders in the target folder named Disk 1,
Disk 2 etc.. Unfortunatly due to the error handler going "wrong" the program
terminated unexpectadly leaving itself in RAM. When I looked at the VB GUI I
saw that it had terminated when creating the 2 folders in c:\.

However... You cant Open them, Explore them, Copy them, Scan them, or Delete
them. Because windows says that it cannot read from the source disk. Not
suprising considering they are 0 bytes long so there is nothing to read...
but if anyone has any infor that could help me irradicate these folders
please let me know :)

-Mark

Jun 14, 2002, 5:58pm

ugh, somehow I managed to make a fwe phantom folders, too! I deleted 'em
somehow but I can't remember what I did, LOL :-P

.... I guess this post was sorta useless ;-)

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Jun 14, 2002, 6:05pm

Not using XP would be the best way to go. It might be a glitch in the NTFS
file system if that's what you happen to be using. Even if it was a phantom
folder, with no size, you'd be able to delete it since it recognizes it. If
it's a "RAM" object.. restart.

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Jun 14, 2002, 10:52pm

pfft, i won't leave XP cause of phantom folders :-P

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Jun 14, 2002, 10:55pm

Go to linux :)

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Jun 14, 2002, 11:34pm

FreeBSD and not yet. I'm not about to blow away my only computer :-P
In about 6 - 8 months, I'll have a REALLY nice comp and then this shit one
will go to being a FreeBSD hosting computer for hosting basically anything i
want to host :-D
But I need WinXP, FreeBSD won't run everything I need to run. Besides, XP
isn't all that bad.

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Jun 14, 2002, 11:46pm

So get linux, linux can run all your windows programs with WINE. And yes,
most of my windows games and programs do work in linux.

I'm also pretty sure FreeBSD has a wine package available.

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Jun 15, 2002, 12:31am

lol, im scared i'll get myself stuck in a situation that takes me a week to
get outta :-P

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Jun 15, 2002, 12:34am

Nah, not after you get used to it. Just remember, never use root unless you
absolutely have to. Or you're a genius and know exactly what you're doing..
even that's risky ;)

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Jun 15, 2002, 3:10am

also, i use a lot of cheapie PCI cards that are not well-known so there
probably wouldn't be much support for them and I certainly can't make my own
drivers.

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Jun 15, 2002, 4:01am

From what I've seen, I'd have to say that Linux supports more hardware
that's out there (and has been out there for years now) than WinXP.
Microsoft is actually talking about removing support for some
devices/interfaces because of security concerns ( they're on a kick with the
new "trustworthy computing" thing).

Pretty much every thing you can think of is supported. Granted the packages
for it may not *come with* the set operating system packages, and thus will
not be detected/setup at install time. But, they are easily found out on the
internet. Find yourself a good Linux newsgroup/mailing list and subscribe.
They'll help 'ya out.

Making you own drivers isn't necessarily that hard. It depends on what you
mean by that. Programming drivers in Linux is a very advanced topic. But,
taking the code that is all over the internet and compiling it isn't rocket
science at all.

I spent a few days trying to turn a cheap old HP system into a server. I
bought a cheep NIC at Best Buy (the thing even said "tested - compatible
with Linux" on the front). However, I get it home and put it in... nada,
nothing... The problem was that my disto of Linux didn't have the needed
packages / kernel modules included.

After doing some research on the web, I found my NIC used a core chip that
was common to several other NICs from different manufactures. Once I new the
chip name, it took me only minutes to track down a website with the driver
code available. It then took me an evening or two (on the newsgroups) to get
the code to compile correctly and load into the kernel as a module. Nothing
hard though...

G'luck with Linux.. Glad to hear you're joining the group.

Regards,
Jeremy

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Jun 15, 2002, 11:11am

I completely agree on that. Most new linux distros now contain the drivers
for most cards. That is if you buy it (not sure about downloading it).

The other reason Microsoft is removing support fod older hardware is because
they want people to buy new hardware, usually from their OEM manufactureres,
so they get even more money.

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Jun 22, 2002, 4:43pm

Apple's FreeBSD distribution runs everything *I* need to run, including AW
:)

Shorah
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