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Of course if the OP's disk is formatted as NTFS, booting from a standard DOS
boot disk will be a pointless exercise in futility, because DOS is unaware
of NTFS and is, thus, unable to read NTFS partitions.
Yes, I am aware that SysInternals has developed a version of DOS that can
read NTFS partitions.
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"M Lew [MSFT]" <mlew@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Do you have a boot up disk? If so, you can boot up using this disk and
then
> search for all instances of this .dll under DOS. There may be two copies
of
> this .dll. I'm uncertain of your computer skill level, but you have to be
> at least somewhat familiar with DOS commands to search for and delete the
> files. You must remove all copies or else the system will simply revert
> back to one of them because .dll's are system file protected.
>
> If you do not have a boot up disk, then you must turn off the system file
> protection and then remove all copies of the .dll. To turn off the system
> file protection mean editing various items in your registry settings then
> undoing these edits later. Again, I'm uncertain of your computer skill
> level, but novice computer users shouldn't editing registry settings
because
> if they make a mistake, it can really cause problems. Sorry, I'm not able
> to inform you as to which registry settings need to be edited for this
> particular task.
>
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup.
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> "rlambert1" <rlambert1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:78BD1F0F-C6FA-4EF8-A0DF-8FA301197CD9@microsoft.com...
> > I'm using Windows XP (SP1).
> >
> > When I try to delete a particular .dll file (not an XP system file), an
> > error message displays saying file cannot be accessed, disk full or
write
> > protected. Does anyone know how I can delete the file? Thanks...
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> > rlambert1
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