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| Answer» <html><body><p>(XP-SP3 system)<br/>The user (which is not me) has tried to install Vista, and he did something wrong. (not important).<br/>During this procedure, the system made a large backup folder (C:\My Backup --- date time).<br/><br/>Now, I have installed Vista properly in a separate partition thus creating a dual-boot system. This all works fine.<br/>However, we still have this large folder My backup and are not able to delete it as the system tells us that we do not have the proper authorization. <br/>We have tried:<br/>- normal delete<br/>- Command mode (DOS)<br/>- Safe mode as administrator<br/>- From Vista<br/>- With the program FileAssassin<br/>Nothing works. We have also tried to change the authorization, but this is not allowed either.<br/><br/>Has anyone a solution, other than formatting the C-disc and re-installing XP?What are the Attributes of the folder? (R/click folder>Properties)<br/><br/>Read-only (partial). (I did try to change this but that is not possible either)<br/>In advanced only the 2nd box is "on" (indexing service)<br/><br/>you may have to take control of the folder before you can make permissions changes.<br/><br/>go back to the properties and than security and click advanced and open the owner tab. you should be able to take ownership from there....<br/><br/> Quote from: Spoiler on June 12, 2008, 08:50:28 AM</p><blockquote>you may have to take control of the folder before you can make permissions changes.<br/>go back to the properties and than security and click advanced and open the owner tab. you should be able to take ownership from there....<br/></blockquote> <br/>I tried that but it won't allow that either, not even as Administrator in safe mode.<br/>The ownership is with some "S-numbers" account that Vista created in XP during the failed upgrade. I don't <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/know-534065" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about KNOW">KNOW</a> if this will be much help but the other day my friend came to me with a similar problem. He couldn't delete a bunch temporary files beacuse it said he didn't have the right administrative privileges or something like that.<br/>All I did was boot into Safe Mode and I could delete them. Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 12, 2008, 09:06:01 AM<blockquote>I don't know if this will be much help but the other day my friend came to me with a similar problem. He couldn't delete a bunch temporary files beacuse it said he didn't have the right administrative privileges or something like that.<br/>All I did was boot into Safe Mode and I could delete them.<br/></blockquote> <br/>As mentioned before, I tried that ... no luckSorry, didn't read the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/post-2638" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POST">POST</a> properly.<br/><br/>I did a small search and found <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-system-file-in-windows-vista/">THIS</a> Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 12, 2008, 09:09:51 AM<blockquote>Sorry, didn't read the post properly.<br/><br/>I did a small search and found <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-system-file-in-windows-vista/">THIS</a><br/></blockquote> <br/>Hey CDu2,<br/>this sounds very good and will probably work. I will tomorrow (or next week) visit my friend; give this a try and report back. Thank you!KK, good luck.The problem was solved along the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/lines-240113" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LINES">LINES</a> indicated in this <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/forum-25637" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FORUM">FORUM</a>. <br/>However, because of the huge number of folders and files in the backup folder that I wanted to delete, I took a different path.<br/><br/>I used an XP Live CD to access the system and changed the ownership of the folder. Then made sure that this ownership was transferred to all subfolders. Next, I changed the attributes to give the new owner (me) full control over the folder and its subfolders.<br/>Then, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/finally-461212" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FINALLY">FINALLY</a>, I was able to delete the folder.<br/><br/>Thanks for all support. <br/><br/>Nice Movie! Move!<br/><br/>Congratulations.What Movie ? ?<br/>I didn't see any movie ? ?<br/><br/> Quote from: patio on June 22, 2008, 09:37:21 AM<blockquote>What Movie ? ?<br/>I didn't see any movie ? ?<br/><br/> <br/></blockquote> Darn.<br/><br/>I meant <strong>Nice Move!</strong>. Where can I download a Firefox Grammer-checker.</body></html> | |