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Delete Millions of Exchange 2000 BadMail files quickly

Tags: badmail, delete, exchange, 2000, files
There is probably an easy answer to this, but danged if I can find it.  All the tricks I try don't work.  We have a client who has (we have discovered) a BadMail folder in their vsi 1 folder that (estimate) holds on the order of 6 Million files of the .bad, .bdp and .bdr extensions.  There are so many, Windows Explorer never gets off the flashlight stage and we can list them through the Dir cmd but there are 40K .bdp for 1 month alone and 60 months worth of data.  That listing of 40k files took over 20 minutes.  

We've seen this problem elsewhere but never to the extent of SO MANY files.  Have attempted

Del 00????~?.bdp (or .bad, etc.) and that has never come back.
Del *.* (which is what I want to do) same story.

Tried to right-click the BadMail folder and delete ... same story.

Does anyone know of any utility or quick way to delete MANY MANY files quickly in NTFS?

This particular client is still in Exchange 2000 so I don't know if we can even turn off BadMail (like Exchange 2003 SP1 does) and they obviously get boatloads of bad mail, so really could use a solution here.
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Question Asked By: sim2k_support
Solution Provided By: nightmare2
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Solution Grade: B
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