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Removing a directory
This question is regarding my FTPRoot folder under "C:\INetPub"

It seems as though my machine has been hacked into at one point and someone has placed rather large files in my FTPRoot folder.  When trying to delete these files, I get the error "Operation not permitted" or "Access Denied".  Is there a way to drop the directory node and just get ride of the whole tree?  I don't care about losing anything under that directory, but I cannot loose the whole drive.

This question is also posted under the Linux Section.

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Take ownership of the folder and everything underneath it first... and then you should be able to delete it...
While there, you can also take a look at the security of the folder and see what user ID has full rights on it... it may lead to the culprit.
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Ownership by the way, is by right clicking the folder and choose property, then choose security.
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jkr,

With your post I was able to remove the majority of the junk, but I'm still getting errors when trying to remove "C:\INetPub\FTPRoot\com1".
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It says "The system cannot find the file specified"
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Doesn't

RmDir \\.\C:\INetPub\FTPRoot\com1 /s /q

work?
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I've typed it exactly as you have shown and it does not work (and yes, those are my exact directory names case and all).  I did an "chkdsk /f" and rebooted.  It fixed a whole bunch of nodes areter the original delete, but it didn't effect this one.
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Ok, this worked:

RmDir \\.\C:\INetPub\FTPRoot\com1~1 /s /q

Thank you, everyone, for all your help.
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Your prompt, accurate answer was greatly appreciated.
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Thank you :o)
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