Solved Cant Delete Folders on External Drive

[tigpoppa]

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.

 

[marsmimar]

Two free utilities that might help:

UNLOCKER 1.9.1 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

Malwarebytes : Remove any locked file with FileASSASSIN

 

[nilank]

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.

 

[tigpoppa]

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

 

[marsmimar]

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!