Microsoft KB Archive/72044

= Deleting Files with Stacker Installed =

Article ID: 72044

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.1
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.2 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.21 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3a
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q72044



SUMMARY
If the error message &quot;Access Denied&quot; is given when you attempt to delete a file that does not have the read-only bit set, check to see if you are running Stacker.



MORE INFORMATION
STAC Electronics of Carlsbad, California, has released a disk compression utility that creates logical drives and makes exact copies of the old drives in them, except that everything except MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM, CONFIG.SYS, and AUTOEXEC.BAT are compressed to save space.

It is possible for the &quot;Stacker volume&quot; (the logical drive that contains the compressed files) to be marked as &quot;read only&quot;. If this is the case, there is no standard way from within MS-DOS to delete the file.

To see if the Stacker volume has been marked as &quot;read only,&quot; reboot the computer and look for the message:

Volume Damage Read Only Write Protect

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Press any key to continue...

If this message appears, call STAC Electronics Technical Support at (619) 431-6712. International customers should call (619) 431-7474.

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Additional query words: 3.20 3.21 3.30 3.30a 4.00 4.01 4.01a 5.00 3rdparty noupd

Keywords: KB72044

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