Permission Denied deleting folders

[Charles Daniel]

I had two hard drives when I installes XP Home Edition. The first of the two is the bootable partion the second is for aux storage. I set this second drive up as a folder on C: and not a drive letter (ie drive D).

The problem is that no account including the admin can delete any folder on the second drive. I get a dialog which says "Access denied" and that the folder is write protected, full or in use.

None of these are true as far as I know. The only thing running is the control panel and the processes on the task bar. None of which should be using the drive in question.

When I view properties, it shows that write protection is on. I reset it to off. Delete continues to fail and shows the same dialog again. When I go back into properties it shows the write protection is back on.

This is happening for the sys admin. What's wrong? Anyone have any idea?

[MITCH11]

Boot your computer in safe mode and delete the file/folder ect.. It should work in safe mode


To boot in safe mode

1. Go to start and click run
type "msconfig" hit enter
2. click tab BOOT.INI check /SAFEBOOT

To go back to normal Booting do the same and uncheck /SAFEBOOT


let me know it works

GL MITCH11

[Miz]

Sometimes turning off the Indexing service solves the problem permanently.

Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services, scroll down to and double click on Indexing. Set it to "disabled" in the drop-down list and click on the "Stop" button to stop it without having to reboot. Try deleting the file again.

If neither Mitch11's or my suggestions work, you can use MoveOnBoot, a free utility that will move and delete the files and folders you tell it to on the next bootup, before Windows loads.

The Read Only attribute on folders is a meaningless setting that Windows ignores. Why Microsoft's programmers decided to do it that way is something only they know.