Deleting files off slave drives in Windows 7 x64

[Necrosaro420]

Ok, I have 4 drives in my PC. For whatever reason, Windows 7 will not let me delete alot of my files on some of these drives. They have never been encrypted or anything. Im able to view files, copy to drives, etc...but alot of them wont let me delete them. I download some little hack that supose to let you right click, take ownership, but that dont seem to work. Is there a program or any other way to do this? Is there a way to turn this crap off, I cant stand it. Thanks!

 

[Blazer]

just want to delete some files OR delete all files on the drive ?

 

[Necrosaro420]

Just some files, have a bunch of old crap I really dont need to keep around, but wont let me, even though its on a slave drive =P Hell I even have an old windows folder (xp) on one of the drives and it wont let me delete even though its not on the main hard drive, but theres just normal files too besides that one I want to get rid of.

 

[Blazer]

boot into safe mode and take ownership.

 

[Necrosaro420]

Nope thats not working either =( This is the account I made when prompted during install. Here is what its showing:

 

[Blazer]

try this http://majorgeeks.com/Delete_Doctor_d4473.html

 

[Snapster]

You need to take ownership of the folders/drive first.

 

[StinkyPinky]

If your account is an admin acct you should just need to take ownership of the folders. Right click - Security Tab- Advanced Button - Owner. Change owner to your account.

Only on NTFS file system

 

[Necrosaro420]

If your account is an admin acct you should just need to take ownership of the folders. Right click - Security Tab- Advanced Button - Owner. Change owner to your account.

Only on NTFS file system

It has me as owner and still wont delete =( Its the default account it had me make when I installed.

 

[Necrosaro420]

try this http://majorgeeks.com/Delete_Doctor_d4473.html

This didnt work =( In the little dos window that pops up it says access denied in there when its running commands to delete.

 

[Blazer]

move the files you want to keep to another drive and delete the partition.

 

[rasczak]

Just some files, have a bunch of old crap I really dont need to keep around, but wont let me, even though its on a slave drive =P Hell I even have an old windows folder (xp) on one of the drives and it wont let me delete even though its not on the main hard drive, but theres just normal files too besides that one I want to get rid of.

why not copy the files you want to keep over to another partition then just blow away the slave drives? seems simpler to me.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Try removing all the other users, and the ones you can't remove set to full control. I ran into this problem before and this fixed it.