RE: [MLUG] how to remove all but one dir in NTFS drive

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Mark Rupright wrote:

> I think you could use a live environment such as bart pe.  Boot to it, 
> and use it to delete everything except your data folder and then reboot 
> with the spanish XP cd and go from there.


Yep.  I used BartPE and it worked fine.

The trick was to figure out the proper command for deleting everything.  I 
figured out that this gave me the answer:

del /?

It had been a while since I used DOS.  The relevant arguments were these:

  /F            Force deleting of read-only files.
  /S            Delete specified files from all subdirectories.
  /Q            Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to delete on global wildcard

I think that was all.  Anyway, it worked great.  Once I cleared Windows 
away, I installed the Ecuadorian Spanish WinXP Pro.  I was in Ecuador when 
I did this.

Mike

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