deleting folders

[edicus]

I have 2 windows backup folder and I want to delete one of them (i.e. windows.old). I get the message "this folder is no located on c:\" How do I get rid of it??

Thanks!

Eddie

 

[RknRusty]

Try navigating to it with the command prompt running as administrator and delete it. If that won't work, boot from another source and locate it. I use Ubuntu for that. The version I use has all sorts of useful utilities too.

 

[TimStitt]

Hi Edicus,


Some thoughts:

• What are the steps leading up to the error message? e.g. are you navigating to the folder and can see it in explorer and then trying to delete, are you using a third party deletion program etc?
• If you can see the folder, then please run a checkdisk on your drive to remove any drive corruption.
• Also please check that you have permissions to delete it.

If you need any steps to complete the above, then I'd be happy to post those up as well.

 

[WindowsStar]

Run the Clean Up Disk from windows and it will delete the Windows.Old for you.

Or

Run it from an elevated Command Prompt: cleanmgr.exe

 

[jcgriff2]

As was mentioned by WindowsStar

--> How to remove the Windows.old folder that is generated when you perform a custom installation of Windows Vista

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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[edicus]

Hi Edicus,


Some thoughts:

• What are the steps leading up to the error message? e.g. are you navigating to the folder and can see it in explorer and then trying to delete, are you using a third party deletion program etc?
• If you can see the folder, then please run a checkdisk on your drive to remove any drive corruption.
• Also please check that you have permissions to delete it.

If you need any steps to complete the above, then I'd be happy to post those up as well.

Thanks for the help to you and everyone else.

I am using Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder and trying to delete it from there. I'll try the other suggestions from this thread and see which works. And I did a check disk recently, so that might not be it - I'll run it again, though.

 

[edicus]

Try navigating to it with the command prompt running as administrator and delete it. If that won't work, boot from another source and locate it. I use Ubuntu for that. The version I use has all sorts of useful utilities too.

From command prompt I get a message the directory is not empty. I did "del *.*" from Windows.old.000/users but when I went back to the folder and went to remove the Users folder I again got a message it is not empty.

I ran disk cleanup and checked "remove old windows installation" and that did not work either.


<sigh>

 

[WindowsStar]

Open an elevated command prompt and type the following in order; I am going to assume the directory name is Windows.old.000 from the above postings. Please change the name as needed.

Note: This will delete the folder and there is NO quick recovery if you type the wrong directory name in, so please be extremely careful. Create a restore point if you want to have a backup.

takeown /F Windows.old.000 /R /A
attrib -r -s -h Windows.old.000\*.* /s /d
rd Windows.old.000 /s /q

 

[Zomby88]

right click and select properties, that should tell you where it is. How many partitions do you have ?

 

[edicus]

Open an elevated command prompt and type the following in order; I am going to assume the directory name is Windows.old.000 from the above postings. Please change the name as needed.

Note: This will delete the folder and there is NO quick recovery if you type the wrong directory name in, so please be extremely careful. Create a restore point if you want to have a backup.

takeown /F Windows.old.000 /R /A
attrib -r -s -h Windows.old.000\*.* /s /d
rd Windows.old.000 /s /q

Worked! Thanks so much. Command prompts make me miss the days of DOS!

 

[motc7]

Open an elevated command prompt and type the following in order; I am going to assume the directory name is Windows.old.000 from the above postings. Please change the name as needed.

Note: This will delete the folder and there is NO quick recovery if you type the wrong directory name in, so please be extremely careful. Create a restore point if you want to have a backup.

takeown /F Windows.old.000 /R /A
attrib -r -s -h Windows.old.000\*.* /s /d
rd Windows.old.000 /s /q

Worked! Thanks so much. Command prompts make me miss the days of DOS!

Alternatively, if you are looking for a GUI based item to delete folders and files that won't go away, try Unlocker.