Cant Delete Folders on External Drive


  1. tigpoppa
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Cant Delete Folders on External Drive


    I installed Windows 7 today on my SSD and boot to that drive.
    My old hdd also had windows 7 so I kept it around and installed the HD and I can see it in explorer as drive G.
    All the folders are there but some of them I cant delete like the windows folder. I took ownership but it still said access denied.

    How can I remove these files from the external hard drive? Im not even using that OS, some folders have files I want for now which is why I dont just want to format it.
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  3. marsmimar
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    Win 7 Pro 64-bit
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    Two free utilities that might help:

    UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

    Malwarebytes : Remove any locked file with FileASSASSIN
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  4. nilank
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    AFAIK, unlocker doesn't work well with Windows 7. Best option would be to boot from a live linux OS like Ubuntu and then delete the files.
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  6. tigpoppa
    Posts : 116
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    marsmimar said:
    Two free utilities that might help:

    UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

    Malwarebytes : Remove any locked file with FileASSASSIN
    Thanks!!!

    OK so cedrick one that is one file at time and sometimes didnt work so I got rid of that.
    File assassin was one folder bad for folders full of files.

    Found a freeware program called iobit unlocker i think was the name and it did the trick!!!

    thanks guys
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  7. marsmimar
    Posts : 10,994
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    tigpoppa said:
    marsmimar said:
    Two free utilities that might help:

    UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

    Malwarebytes : Remove any locked file with FileASSASSIN
    Thanks!!!

    OK so cedrick one that is one file at time and sometimes didnt work so I got rid of that.
    File assassin was one folder bad for folders full of files.

    Found a freeware program called iobit unlocker i think was the name and it did the trick!!!

    thanks guys
    Glad to hear you got it sorted out. Thanks for posting back!
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