From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rm -d  and mangled fat entries
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:53:12 -0500
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> > How to free up at least 300 MB of hard disk
> > space (as seen from the MS-DOS prompt):
> >
> > C:\>deltree c:\windows
> > Delete directory "Windows" and all its subdirectories? [yn] y
> > Deleting Windows...
>
> AFAIK this doesn't work, my brother tried this and apparently windoze 98
> refused to allow this

    That's because Windows has a lock on many files in that directory tree.
It works from when you "Restart in MS-DOS mode".  (I've tried it).

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)