[Nikos]

I am having trouble deleting a folder within my External HD.

Everytime I highlight the folder or right click it simply freezes the external HD window completely. So basically I cannot manually delete it.

I have not done any backups nor did I want to. I have a lot of important files on the external HD, and I do not want to mess around with backtracking and old backups.

I just want to delete that folder somehow. Anyone know of a way I can get around this and delete the folder in some other fashion?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[bootman]

OS?
Drive Letter?
File system? (FAT, FAT32, NTFS etc)
Folder name?
Is it empty?
Are you sure you really want to get rid of it?

open up a command prompt (start/run-cmd(nt/xp) or command(9x))
Type: rd [drive letter]:\[name of directory]

example: to delete a directory named temp in a drive called "I:"
the command would be: rd i:\temp.
If the folder name has spaces then surround it with quotes.
ex rd i:\"temp folder"