Hi - I'm trying to delete a corrupt file which resides on a Netware 3.12 server. I have tried this from a Windows 2003 server which connects to it and also directly from the server itself. I have tried doing this from filer.exe and receive the message 'unable to delete from DOS partitions' and also tried using a command line option but the backslash key won't work even after swapping out the keyboard so something in Netware has disabled this. I've brought the server down and back up and this didn't work and also checked that the file isn't locked and there are no connected resources but still no joy. When trying to delete from Windows it just brings up 'Unable to find path to file'. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

You can get a backslash by holding the left ALT key and typing the number 92 at the numbers block. Try out.

That's great, thanks for that. Still can't delete it though!

Maybe there is a special character in the file name. Did you simply try to rename the file to e.g A.txt of whatever and then delete the file?

No, there are no special characters in the file name. The name hasn't changed, that's one of the problems, if I could rename the corrupt file I could then copy a replacement into the directory but I can't do anything with it, re-name, move or delete.

You wrote, the you get error message "unable to delete from DOS partitions" when using filer.exe. Where is the file stored, at a netware partition or the dos partition of that server?

Is there running Intel's LanDesk Manager with Intel Virus Protection Modul? Because the Virus Protection Module is monitoring the files and prevents files from being deleted.