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Author:  alanm [ Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:24 pm ]
Post subject:  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
Author:  saspro [ Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: protected folders
Right click the volume & take ownership of it.
Give yourself full control & then delete what you like
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Tue May 03, 2011 11:55 am ]
Post subject:  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
Author:  John_Vella [ Tue May 03, 2011 6:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: protected folders
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.
Author:  JohnSheridan [ Tue May 03, 2011 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  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.
Author:  John_Vella [ Tue May 03, 2011 9:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: protected folders
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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