Night Of The Living .ISO File

[rdlaing]

I have an .iso file backup of my Night Of The Living Dead DVD on my desktop and the thing WON'T DIE...

I keep trying to delete it or even use eraser to erase it, and I keep getting the 'file is in use by another program' error. The scary part is -- there is no other program in use! The system tray is empty; this .iso file has a life of its own!

Please help, I am very frightened.

-- rd

ps

yes, I did try shooting it in the head, and it still won't die.

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Have you tried deleting it in safe mode?

[rdlaing]

good suggestion, but I tried it in safe mode and got the same "file in use by another program" error.

??

[SuperBeastDJ]

if forget what its called im not sure if its safe mode actuily i think it is, log in as administrator i think and you get a black screen with a command prompt (/ ) and you just type delete C:/folder/name.iso

something like that... it totaly deletes the file for existance

by the way im doing this off of tiny bits of memorys lol so DONT try that...

[bigandy]

I guess you could try using the command prompt to delete the file. So if the file was on the desktop, you would type: del "c:/documents and settings/%username%/desktop/filename.iso" - where %username% is the login you are using.

You might also try, MoveOnBoot.

[Propain]

do you use any virtual drives like Alcohol120% , Dameon Tools ,Virtual CD5 etc etc ? even if they arent in the systray , a cd image could still be loaded . start the program if thats the case and unmount the image.

[rdlaing]

thanks Propain, that was the problem, I had the file mounted on Daemon tools even though I didn't have Daemon tools open.

no more zombie invasion...