Anilrgowda

I got a new computer and took my old hard disk and installed it on the new one (I put a smaller older HD on the old computer instead).
The old drive had everything in a working installation, just like the last day it was running.
In order to don't confuse me, I created a folder named "Old" and moved all the folders to it, on the old drive.
Now, in order to get free space, I wanted to remove "Program Files", "Windows" and "Documents and Settings".
I also wanted to run attrib -r -h -s *.* /S on the "D:" drive in order to make all files "normal".

To start with:
On Windows:
- I have a file on : "D:\Old\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash8a.oc x". This file denies to be deleted, I get "Cannot delete Flash8a.ocx. Access is denied".

On Documents and Settings:
- "D:\Old\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys" file name is "7a436fe806e483969f48a894af2fe9a1_d8a0bf26-ae9f-489b-ac9a-8c415fa24d9d". That file denies as well.

But these doesn't end here. I have some more "common" files that denies to be written/deleted.
Two gif files on a development "www" folder.
A zip file containing an Asp.Net template.
A norton AV temporary file.

Before any naive suggestion comes let me clarify:
- I'm the only user in my computer.
- I'm the administrator.
- I don't have spyware installed, that's checked. I have Firewall (ZoneAlarm) and Norton AV Corporative 9.
- Rebooting ? A lot.

This seems a kind of charming, don't you think ?


soln

you may need to take ownership of the files : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
if you still have "stubborn" files, delete them with Killbox :
www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php