You might also try a "wildcard" to delete the file, e.g. go into Safe Mode,
open a command prompt, cd to the folder and use "del 25*.*" (note the space
after 25). God, miss the old days and Norton Utilities where could easily
just do the low level edit on the filename stored on the hard disk.

"Db" wrote in message
...
you might try running
check disk so that the
fat can be reconciled
to the file system.

another thing you might
try is booting into safe
mode and try to delete
the file.

lastly, I recall a utility
that deletes zero byte
files from the disk.

don't recall what it is
anymore,

but worth a try searching
for the feature and see
what utility has it.

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"Crest Teethgel" crest@teethgel wrote in message
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The file to be deleted is: not locked, attribut normal, o byte
The exception here is that it's filename ended with a space. Filename "25
The "

explorer.exe gives the following message when the action is to delete it:
Impossible de supprimer fichier: impossible de lire à partir du fichier
ou de la disquette source
This can be translated as:
Impossible to delete file: Impossible to read from file or from diskette
source

After a Google search I did the following (resulting messages are
translated):

del "25 The "
del "\\.\c:\prob\25 The "
Impossible to find ... 25 The

chkdsk /f c:
problem still persistant

C:\gnuwin32\bin\rm -f "25 The "
C:\gnuwin32\bin\rm -f "\\.\c:\prob\25 The "
No message

RmDir \\.\C:\prob /s /q
25 The - Le fichier spécifié est introuvable.
25 The - Specified file can not be found

C:\SysinternalsSuite\sdelete.exe ".\25 The "
No files found that match

Boot with safety mode + del
Impossible to find

hardlinkcreate.exe ".\bof.txt" ".\25 The "
Specified file (2) can not be found

fsutil file createnew ".\25 The " 0
25 The created.
The file created here is "25 The" not "25 The ".

From my humble opinion a direct intervention in NTFS is the only way to
go.
But I don't know how.

Someone can help me ?
Thank you in advance.