Can't Delete files on USB drive

By brother (without internet connection) has called. Windows Vista Home
Premium. SP1. No other updates as there is no internet.

He has completely filled his USB backup drive and his C: drive. He is
attempting to delete an older backup folder from the USB drive. Even when he
holds the Shift key down and presses the Delete key he receives a message
that there isn't enough space to perform this operation.

What now?

 

Look for a program called unlocker, install that then right click on the
file he wants to delete and go from there. If that doesn't work compress the
drive delete the files he wants to then uncompress the drive.

Rich


"Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
news:588FC620-3060-4472-AC5C-9B87182F5A51@microsoft.com...
> By brother (without internet connection) has called. Windows Vista Home
> Premium. SP1. No other updates as there is no internet.
>
> He has completely filled his USB backup drive and his C: drive. He is
> attempting to delete an older backup folder from the USB drive. Even when
> he holds the Shift key down and presses the Delete key he receives a
> message that there isn't enough space to perform this operation.
>
> What now?

 

Rich,

Aren't backup folders already compressed?

"Rich" <madeyoulook@dot.com> wrote in message
news:uFxSyui6JHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Look for a program called unlocker, install that then right click on the
> file he wants to delete and go from there. If that doesn't work compress
> the drive delete the files he wants to then uncompress the drive.
>
> Rich
>
>
> "Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
> news:588FC620-3060-4472-AC5C-9B87182F5A51@microsoft.com...
>> By brother (without internet connection) has called. Windows Vista Home
>> Premium. SP1. No other updates as there is no internet.
>>
>> He has completely filled his USB backup drive and his C: drive. He is
>> attempting to delete an older backup folder from the USB drive. Even when
>> he holds the Shift key down and presses the Delete key he receives a
>> message that there isn't enough space to perform this operation.
>>
>> What now?
>
>

 

It depends on how they were backed up!

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
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> Rich,
>
> Aren't backup folders already compressed?
>
> "Rich" <madeyoulook@dot.com> wrote in message
> news:uFxSyui6JHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Look for a program called unlocker, install that then right click on the
>> file he wants to delete and go from there. If that doesn't work compress
>> the drive delete the files he wants to then uncompress the drive.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> "Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
>> news:588FC620-3060-4472-AC5C-9B87182F5A51@microsoft.com...
>>> By brother (without internet connection) has called. Windows Vista Home
>>> Premium. SP1. No other updates as there is no internet.
>>>
>>> He has completely filled his USB backup drive and his C: drive. He is
>>> attempting to delete an older backup folder from the USB drive. Even
>>> when he holds the Shift key down and presses the Delete key he receives
>>> a message that there isn't enough space to perform this operation.
>>>
>>> What now?
>>
>>
>

 

This is what you get for using Vista.
You would not have problems under WindowsXP

 

If the C drive is full then there is no 'swap file space'
He needs to delete any unused programs and applications and then retry

 

Well then he needs to plug it into another machine, remove certain data &
move to another storage, and reinstall into that "full" computer again.

 

Well then he needs to plug USB into another machine, remove certain data &
move to another storage, and reinstall USBdrive into that "full" computer
again.

 

I meant:
Well then he needs to plug USB into another machine, remove certain data &
move to another storage, and reinstall USBdrive into that "full" computer
again.

 

They were backed up using the Vista backup facility.
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It depends on how they were backed up!
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
> news:3DFEC98C-5A72-4597-83B7-AD65626EFFD8@microsoft.com...
>> Rich,
>>
>> Aren't backup folders already compressed?
>>
>> "Rich" <madeyoulook@dot.com> wrote in message
>> news:uFxSyui6JHA.2388@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Look for a program called unlocker, install that then right click on the
>>> file he wants to delete and go from there. If that doesn't work compress
>>> the drive delete the files he wants to then uncompress the drive.
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>>> "Charles W Davis" <newsgroup@anthemwebs.com> wrote in message
>>> news:588FC620-3060-4472-AC5C-9B87182F5A51@microsoft.com...
>>>> By brother (without internet connection) has called. Windows Vista Home
>>>> Premium. SP1. No other updates as there is no internet.
>>>>
>>>> He has completely filled his USB backup drive and his C: drive. He is
>>>> attempting to delete an older backup folder from the USB drive. Even
>>>> when he holds the Shift key down and presses the Delete key he receives
>>>> a message that there isn't enough space to perform this operation.
>>>>
>>>> What now?
>>>
>>>
>>
>