Re: Unable to delete orphaned 1.5 GB System Restore folder

No problem David and thanks for reporting back that you got it resolved and
what worked. I know I sometimes overcomplicate a problem, get a headache,
and then have a DOH moment wondering how I missed it. --- Steve


"puzzled and frustrated" <puzzledandfrustrated@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:3FC07D71-8B97-4277-9EB4-1D639FA96E10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OK. My sincere apologies. I went through the ownership lists and took
control of that folder away from Creator and then was able to delete it
with
no problem. Thanks Everyone!

David


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

I would try making sure you have full control NTFS permissions to the
folder/subfolders/files as administrator and then try to delete them. If
that does not work try booting into Safe Mode and trying again. Sometimes
it
helps by trying to delete child folders first and then working your way
up
to the parent folder. I would also run Check Disk on your computer and
select the option to fix file errors automatically. The links below shows
how to take ownership of folders/files [if needed to change permissions]
and
how to change NTFS permissions if you need that info. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418


"puzzled and frustrated" <puzzled and
frustrated@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message
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My Dell came with Win XP Pro SP1, and when they sent me a Dell SP2 CD
with
a
replacement box (and SP1 installed on it) i transferred over all my
files
and
then installed SP2 (but there was a hitch) and XP Pro SP2 lost track of
the
huge change file it made for going back to SP1. I should have turned
off
Sytem Restore for the SP2 installation. Everything is now fine but
there
was
a hitch in the SP2 upgrade procedure that made me do it twice.
Apparently,
XP lost track of the 1.5 GB restore folder as a System Respore Pointr
and
it
also refuses to let me delete it. The problem is that there is an
orphaned
1.5 GB System Restore folder storing all the changes from SP1 to SP2,
and
XP
(and Linux) won't let me delete that year-old useless file. By
various
machinations (after the Windows XP Accessory, Disk Cleanup's function,
"delete all but most recent restore point" failed to delete it) ... I
then
succeeded in "unhiding" that obsolete "...DC1/RP1/" folder by making it
a
a
network share and writable over the network and then moving the
obsolete
junk
file to C:/TEMP from System Volume Information, so it is far away from
the
"real" restore points. The old folders under TEMP are named DC/RP1 and
DC1/RP2, while my PC's "real" Restore Points are numbered past RP99.

With Windows Explorer i can uncheck the Read Only box and try to apply
it
to
all subirectories, but XP immediately changes it back to Read Only and
says
Access Denied when i try to delete the files and directories (both from
GUI
and from command line). I have even tried using a Windows 98 boot CD
and
that won't work either. I can't boot into DOS 3.1 to do it because it
doesn't handle NTFS (as do the two Linux bootable discs). Even Linux
recognizes these files as special system files that it refuses to
delete,
saying Access Denied when i try to give myself write access to them. I
have
been unable to delete these 1.5 GB of junk files using (in an XP
command
Window: "set attrib -r -h -s C:/TEMP/DC1/RP1/files /S /D" to turn off
the
read-only, hidden, and system bits for that folder, and the /S /D means
to
apply the change to all subdirectories and to all folders. I get the
error
"Acess Denied" when i give it that command.

XP mistakenly sees these as crucial system files and (as moved Network
Shares) it lets me move them around to other places, like
C:/TEMP/DC1/RP1
..., but it doesn't let me delete them. I get Access Denied from both
XP
and
Linux, and my accounts all have Admin (and root) privileges. If i had
a
removable hard drive large enough which i don't) i might be able to
move
them
there and then reformat it to get rid of them. Can anyone think of any
easier way to get rid of this 1.5 GB of junk files that were created
when
SP2
was installed?

Please help me get rid of this 1.5 GB of junk.

David
dc(remove)@davidchanin . com [delete the two spaces]





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