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deleting file on ntfs partition

Posted 03-10-2011 at 11:33 PM by sumeet inani
Updated 03-10-2011 at 11:36 PM by sumeet inani (clarification)

I have portable USB hard disk with NTFS filesystem . I copied a file emding with space (eg 'a.avi ') on it in ubuntu.
At home when I plugged hard disk in XP then the file won't be deleted,renamed,edited etc. Could not change permission .
I got message
Code:
Cannot read from source file or disk
Then I ran in windows command prompt
Code:
erase "\\?\j:\a.avi "
So the moral is-
Quote:
Filename was invalid for windows OS
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