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M i have a real mess here, i cannot complete running
M scandisk to reinstall win98. the system generated 10,000 M files to put my data into. "file0001.chk thru M file9999.chk". Is there a DOS wild card command (include M syntax) that can combine all of these files into one M directory or change the name of these files? thank you Good grief that's a lot of bad files! Did the power flicker or get shut off when the computer was doing a major process? (If power flicker good reason to get a UPS.) Are the FILE*.CHKs needed? If so, keep/rename before doing anything else with them. TYPE FILE0001.CHK | MORE is one way. If you have a old copy of Norton Utilities use it's VIEW command. If you combine all the FILE*.CHKs it's going to be a major mess extracting the sections again. Assuming you want to keep: At the root directory (i.e., "C:\") MD FILES Make a Directory called FILES CD FILES Change to the Directory called FILES MOVE C:\FILE*.CHK C: Move all the files in the root directory starting with FILE and ending with the extension CHK to the current directory. (I'm assuming you're on the C: drive; if another substitute the appropriate drive letter.) Why are we moving the files? Because the root directory can only have so many files but subdirectories ("C:\FILES") can have nearly unlimited. Assuming you want to get rid of them: DEL C:\FILE*.CHK DELete all files in C:'s root directory with that filename pattern. OK, let's assume you do SCANDISK again and end up with a couple hundred more. [Might be a good idea to get a new hard drive like another respondent suggested!] If you do the MOVE command (above) the computer is going to see there is a file by that name already and ask if you want to overwrite (erase) the old one. If you change one character the filename is now different. If I remember correctly MOVE has a problem with that so we need to do it in two steps: (Next three lines repeated from above so easier to refer to.) MD FILES Make a Directory called FILES CD FILES Change to the Directory called FILES MOVE C:\FILE*.CHK C: Move all the files in the root We've already created the FILES directory so don't need that again. CD FILES if you're not in the FILES subdirectory currently. COPY C:\FILE*.CHK C:*.CHL This will copy all of the files with the pattern FILE*.CHK but now with the extension CHL. DEL C:\FILE*.CHK This will delete the files you just copied. - ¯ barry.martinþATþthesafebbs.zeppole.com ® * Extremely neat - even combs his underarm hairs. --- þ RoseReader 2.52á P003186 þ The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA 563-359-1971 --- þ RIMEGate(tm)/RGXMod V1.13 at BBSWORLD * |
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