giveio.sys

So, there's this file I need to murder in my system32 folder because it's stopping me from booting Windows. I'm on Slax at the moment, but, unfortunately, I am Linux-retarded and can't figure out how to get it to let me delete that file. It won't let me change the permissions on it no matter what.

Any help would be much appreciated.

1. mount hard drive
2. navigate to file
3. delete file
4. ??????
5. profit

Yeah, I thought of that, but it was like "CANNOT DELETE FILE", and I tried to change the permissions to let me delete the file, but it was like "CANNOT CHANGE PERMISSIONS". And I attempted to take ownership of the file, and it was like "OKAY", but then I tried to change the permissions again and it was like "LOL NOPE".

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It's possible the ntfs driver you are using does not support writing to the disk. Try installing ntfs-3g and mount the Windows partition as type ntfs-3g, then delete the file.

Open terminal,
create a mount point if it doesn't already exist:
mkdir -p /mnt/sda1
(I'm assuming that your hard drive is SCSI or SATA, check with
cat /proc/partitions
if you see sda1, that's the case
otherwise you might see hda1 if it's an ide, in which case replace sda1 by hda1 in my commands)
mount your windows partition:
ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
if you do:
ls /mnt/sda1
you should be able to see the contents of your windows partition