I used takeown and icacl in the DOS window under elevated command prompt.
""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote:
Quote:
> Hello,
> The question I would have is what were the commands you used takeown.exe
> and Icacl.exe?
>
> You may need to check what the permissions are on the files and folders.
> You may want to run icacls c:\Backup_folder /T where backup_folder is the
> name of the folder you have the files in.
> This should show all the permissions. You may need to check for any files
> or folders which do not have administrators with (F) Full permission on
> them. The other thing to check is for files that may the (D) deny
> permission on them. Deny takes precedence and would generate Access
> Denied.
>
> Thanks,
> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
>
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> |> Paul, please elaborate. I thought I WAS taking ownership thru takeown...
> |>
> |> "PaulB" wrote:
> |>
> |> > Take ownership of the files, then delete.
> |> > --
> |> > Paul
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > "bilvihur" wrote:
> |> >
> |> > > I backed up my System files (Program, Users, etc) to a Backup folder
> when I
> |> > > had to do a Partial reinstall. Now I want to delete the Backup
> folder. I've
> |> > > run Takeown and Icals as suggested by other posts, and they
> completed
> |> > > successfully. However, I still get permission denied when I try to
> delete the
> |> > > folder. Can anyone help me free up 10GB of space? Thanks.
> |>
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