wrote:
> Life would be much easier if there was a way to
> remove these files before
> disconnecting the drive from the machine. Drag and
> drop files to one's content
> with whatever tools one wants, remove the problem
> files (by batch drive),
> disconnect and be ready to go. Please, please - is
> there anything that can be
> done? Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may
> offer.
Rocky,
I don't have a good, specific suggestion for you at
this time, but I am interested in whatever the
solution to this problem may be. My recollection is
that zapping those OS/2 root files has been extremely
difficult -- at the very least, if even possible at
all -- under W98 up through XP. But there are a
gazillion Win util.s out there, so I have to think
that something exists. Something of roughly the same
genre as our old BLACK HOLE util., that nuked just
about anything, but for the Dark Side. (I'm skeptical
you could do this at all under OS/2. If you could, it
might be via something like the sector editor in the
Graham or Gammatech suites ? The Graham suite had
some EA tools, as well.)
Here's why I think this. I had a driver + control
program for a D-Link wireless USB Nic installed in
W2K. The whole thing was a fiasco, and I had to get
rid of it, but it just *refused* to be uninstalled.
Couldn't touch it, even under "Safe Mode." I finally
tried killing all the pieces from an alternate
Maintenance partition boot of W2K, but then I still
had to rip out a whole bunch of Registry keys after
that. This STILL wasn't enough (!), so I ultimately
had to scrub the main W2K partition, and restore an
image of it from *before* the D-Link Nic was
installed. That did it. BIG pain in the rear.
Subsequently, a computer consultant who makes a nice
living thanks to Dark Side problems gave me a utility
he says will absolutely "sever the connection" and
remove any recalcitrant item like this. Even from the
running, non-Safe-Mode Windoze. Fortunately, I
haven't had a need to test it yet, but this guy has
always proven very reliable. There is also a (free)
Win process-killer-on-steroids I found out about, from
a name company that mostly provides pricey, exotic Win
tools to system administrators. So, I have to suspect
that all kinds of solutions are out there, if you're
able to run them down.
Jordan
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