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alanm

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protected folders

hi all,
i had a system crash and purchased a new hard disk and have reinstalled windows etc etc.

i have the old hard disk as a slave drive on the pc.

on this slave drive i have found various folders which i cannot get access to

"System Volume Information" for example

I have tried to set the attributes -H and -S but still cannot delete this folder.

does anyone have any ideas as to how I might remove this? i have a suspiscion it may contain malware

regards

Alan

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Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:24 pm

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Re: protected folders

Right click the volume & take ownership of it.
Give yourself full control & then delete what you like

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Re: protected folders

How about copying the stuff you need onto your new HDD (and asuming no info you need is in these protected folders) and then formatting the old one

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	hifidelity2 wrote: How about copying the stuff you need onto your new HDD (and asuming no info you need is in these protected folders) and then formatting the old one

+1. You also help to mitigate against fragmentation issues.

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Tue May 03, 2011 6:24 pm

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Re: protected folders

If you just want to delete them then try installing a little program called "unlocker" http://download.cnet.com/Unlocker/3000- ... 93998.html

That should then let you highlight the file and using unlocker force-delete it.

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John_Vella

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	JohnSheridan wrote: If you just want to delete them then try installing a little program called "unlocker" http://download.cnet.com/Unlocker/3000- ... 93998.html That should then let you highlight the file and using unlocker force-delete it.

I don't want to come across as being too negative but... Oh good, another program to slow Windows down that little bit more! :lol:

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