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And you need `cd /d` to switch drives. This was how I rendered a Windows computer non-bootable for the first time. Ran Command Prompt as admin (because I was lo
by chrismorgan 4mo ago
And you need `cd /d` to switch drives. This was how I rendered a Windows computer non-bootable for the first time. Ran Command Prompt as admin (because I was logged in as a user that didn’t have write access to D:\backups), and it starts in a rather important directory, then:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd D:\backups\some-huge-directory
C:\WINDOWS\system32>del /s *
Oops. I learned to look twice before running a big dangerous command. And to use /d.
- ChrisSD 4mo agoOr you could use powershell and avoid the issue ;). Though nowadays system files should be protected even from admin and even if you do manage to delete them, Windows can restore them.
- chrismorgan 4mo agoPowerShell didn’t quite exist back then!
- momoraul 4mo agoOof, cd silently staying on the wrong drive and then del /s is the worst possible version of this. /d the hard way.