{"id":516,"date":"2017-06-16T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccrossan.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:36:21","slug":"un-deletable-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossan007.dev\/blog\/windows\/un-deletable-file\/","title":{"rendered":"The Un-Deletable File"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m not sure how I created it, but somehow I managed to create a folder called<\/p>\n

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I can’t delete it from Windows Explorer, PowerShell, CMD, \u00a0[System.IO]::Delete(), or any other method I’ve attempted yet. \u00a0I also can’t delete the parent folder.<\/p>\n
SDelete won’t work:\u00a0https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/sdelete.aspx<\/p>\n
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I’ve checked for and found no open handles on the file<\/p>\n
I cannot move the folder (or it’s parent) to another location – It’s hard-fastened to my desktop.<\/p>\n
My drive is BitLocker encrypted, so I can’t mount it on a Linux Device for deletion, and leveraging WinPE for BitLocker decryption would \u00a0likely subject me to the same file APIs .<\/p>\n
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I’m not sure how I created it, but somehow I managed to create a folder called ‘. I can’t delete it from Windows Explorer, PowerShell, CMD, \u00a0[System.IO]::Delete(), or any other method I’ve attempted yet. \u00a0I also can’t delete the parent folder. SDelete won’t work:\u00a0https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/sdelete.aspx   I’ve checked for and found no open handles on the … Continue reading The Un-Deletable File<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[213,212],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n