How would I go about creating a filename with invalid characters such as :?> ?
Unfortunately, you cannot use the reserved characters when creating folders or files due to them being part of system functions.
What I recommend you do is look through the Character Map
application - You can go to run and type charmap
.
from here, you may be able to find alternate symbols that look the same, for example:
(copy and paste these, you will see that they are different)
Instead of forward slash /
- you can use a division symbol ∕
Instead of Colon :
- you can use the modifier letter colon ꞉
and so on!
You can boot from a Linux disk (such as Knoppix), and mount the NTFS partition.
Linux has much less restrictions on files names, and will let you create such names (I have tried it).