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Somehow, most probably from one or another usb-born Linux, I got cute little directory named C: located on my C: NTFS partition, due to its peculiar name I can not operate on its directory tree as deleting C: is a no no operation after all...

Evil C: ! Run for your lives!

rmdir, del, move, copy all have no effect, and even show some signs of undefined behavior (for example del asks to delete \*).

Checkdisk failed to complete. (I have a bad feeling about this.)

Environment is up-to-date Windows 8.1 in English localization with full admin privileges.

I will be doing full format of this disk in few days anyway and all data are backed up so crazy ideas have green light.

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  • did you try booting in Safe Mode? Keep pressing F8 during boot up to get to safe mode. – Chris Sep 30 '14 at 18:54
  • @ChrisinNL it changes nothing. This is issue on filesystem level created by bug in third party filesystem driver. – PTwr Sep 30 '14 at 19:01
  • @DavidPostill not exactly. Answers from that questions did not work in my case. There are few differences between file and directory ;) – PTwr Sep 30 '14 at 21:33
  • @Sott it did not work, I did my share of googling before posting ;) – PTwr Oct 03 '14 at 06:29

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