Deleting inaccessible files.

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DrChiron
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Deleting inaccessible files.

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Greetings:
I have a parallel install of Win7-SP1-x64 on Volume D: (NTFS).
I went to use its excess capacity to store recovered files by TESTDISK from a corrupted USB stick only to discover that over half of its 165 GB capacity was allocated to DARK MATTER! That's my name for inaccessible files due to their having illegal characters in their file names.
Because I know that defragmenting programs will show allocated blocks regardless of their file attachment I ran Defraggler to show them. Using analysis I was surprised to learn that all that space had been assigned to only 3 files, two of which take up the last portion of the volume. They are each somewhat over 60GB each and are mostly contiguous (5 or 6 fragments each). The third file has 433 fragments, but is only about 1GB in size.
Defraggler shows the following filenames post analysis:
!T1·)··}··8··!F··
Ó
·GK2···@··
[Yes, those are center dots, but may be substituting for other byte values.]
I am seeking a tool that will allow me to delete these files. Does XYp happen to include such a feature?
[ I am not yet script literate, but suspect that simply creating valid filenames using an NTFS disk editor is the core of a solution.]
Also: I made the poor assumption that the \Recovery folder would be a logical place to put the recovered files. My bad. 'Gotta find out what that folder's real use is.
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Marco
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Re: Deleting inaccessible files.

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DrChiron
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Re: Deleting inaccessible files.

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@Marco Thank you for the link, but I'm going to try WinHex to see if I can rename the files to make them capable of deletion. Hopefully they will show on a dir listing.
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Marco
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Re: Deleting inaccessible files.

Post by Marco »

Do you know how to edit the MFT of NTFS? Because if not, you really risk to corrupt the whole partition for good.
If I were you, I would use these:
https://github.com/jschicht/RawDir to get the index of such three files
https://github.com/jschicht/RawCopy to perform the raw copy
Maybe https://github.com/jschicht/NtfsFileExtractor and https://github.com/jschicht/ExtractAllAttributes can be useful.
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