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Can MSE see and scan a file with the name ".", (excluding quotes)?

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I have an NTFS partition that had a lot of JPG and some AVI files from my camera and I recently decided to defragment it. When the process was finished, a notification came up stating that one or more files could not be defragmented. The name of the file was simply ".", excluding quotes. It was in the root directory and was 200k in size and had 25 fragments. I elected to reformat the drive to be on the safe side and haven't tried to defrag again to see what might come up.

My question is what process(es) could I have used to have better investigated what this file was? Would MSE even have been able to see or read this file? I guess if I would have booted up with a Live-CD version of Linux, I could have at least maybe investigated a little further, but are there any other "more PRO-WINDOWS" options I could have considered?

Running Windows XP-HOME, SP3, current updates, all partitions were created with the XP-Install Disk

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