Answer:

Hello dave,

Can you give me that command I could not get that in your reply.

I also tried to do the following way:

1. Took backup of the files by downloading them to file system.

2. Manually delete the pages  from designer (_catalogs/master pages, Pages/default.aspx)

3. Now tried to deploy them through feature.

But I found lot of errors after deployment. Can you suggest me if I followed the correct way of doing this.

I also read that we can achieve this by FeatureActivated event handler.