Ok, let's try to walk you through it. Start the command prompt as you did.
Assuming your files are on the E: drive, switch to the E drive by typing
"E:" and press enter (no quotation marks). Your prompt should now be "E:\>".

What is the name of the folder that the files you want to delete? Is the
problem in the folder name or in the specific files? Do you want to delete
ALL the files in that folder?

You might want to get a list of the file names that are in the folder by
typing the following command
"dir > c:\listing.txt"
This will create a file named listing.txt on your C: drive. If the files are
in a specific directory, you can get a list of the directory saved to a file
by doing the same procedure - give it a new file name instead of listing.txt
so that you have both. Perhaps you can send the contents of the results to
us, or at least some portion (if they are long listings) so that we may get
an idea of what you have. For your information, the ">" symbol is a
redirection operation under the command prompt so that the output of the DIR
command is sent to a file rather than to screen display.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
First let me say that I know nothing about DOS, after doing some research I
got to start > run > cmd and I got into my E drive from there I'm stuck. I
can't seem to get into the folder to delete the files, I've tried to delete
the folder but it keeps saying something about incorrect syntax error and
I'm stuck again.
When I try e:\del iceage I get:

e:\iceage\filename which is strange letters and symbols The filename,
directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Gosh, I hope this helps but I don't know what I'm doing and I'm afraid I
will delete everything off the drive if I try to pick my way thru this.

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