Unable to delete folders

From: Sleurhutje (sleurhutje_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:40:20 +0100

Hi,

After our system administrator removed the entire NT 4.0 domain, my backup
machine (with a mass storage op 2.1TB) is not able to open, rename or remove
some folders. Message I get are about the domain being no longer available
and security can not be verified.

I removed the computer from the domain and made it a workgroup member (same
as the domainname). Things got even worse. Now the task scheduler doesn't
work anymore, files can not be removed, some folders are inaccessible and so
on.

Since the domain is gone, I can no longer revert back to this situation in
which I could take control over files and folder as an administrator.

The only available account on the stand-alone Windows XP Pro Sp1 box is the
administrator with no policies. How do I take ownership of files and
folders??? How can I gain access to these files and folders???

Jeroen

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