 | Be very careful with the information in this tech tip... |
I tried running a tool called rlinux to recover the files from a damaged linux partition. Unfortunately the tool created tens of thousands of bogus directories and empty files. In fact so many that windows file explorer is getting stuck when it tries to display the contents of the directory.
The first thing involved
attrib -r -s *
so that the files could be deleted.
The obvious use of
rd /s *
doesn't work. DOS prompt doesn't like to deal with wildcards when deleting directories.
Another solution is to use a DOS FOR command like this:
for /d %i in (*) do rd /s /q %i
Doing it this way has the nice benefit of not putting stuff in the recycle bin.
So use with caution!
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