Deleting a file with a colon in the file name from Windows?

[Spyduck]

So... I have a folder on one of my drives (formatted as NTFS, if that matters) which has a whole lot of Linux files stupidly copied directly from an ext3 or ext4 system on Linux. (my user folder)

The problem is one of the folders is from Wine, which has filenames like c: and d: and etc. Now that I'm on Windows, it doesn't think the file can possibly exist (even though it shows in Explorer) because of, I'm assuming, the colon in the filenames.

This means I can't delete/move them or the folder they're in or the folder that's in. And it's driving my crazy as I'm trying to organize the files.

I've tried taking permission and using cmd to remove them and etc... but it doesn't work.

Any way I can do this in Windows without redownloading a LiveCD ISO and going from there?

[Arsonist]

You could try a third party file explorer

[Dr Egg]

There is some command line utility built in that can delete it. It was posted in some other topic on here

[Spyduck]

[QUOTE=Arsonist;19932925]You could try a third party file explorer[/QUOTE]
I've tried Explorer++ but it does the same thing

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;19934632]There is some command line utility built in that can delete it. It was posted in some other topic on here[/QUOTE]
Do you remember what the topic was about?

I'm looking through the help options on cmd but I don't see anything that's worked yet.

Edit: Actually, nevermind. Running chkdsk on the drive fixed it (by deleting the files)

Problem solved :0