Greetings:
I really don't know what was happening. After uncompressing rar files downloaded over the internet in my XP Pro sp3 desktop machine, Winrar extracts them into an empty sub-dir folder which strangely I am unable to delete or rename. Every attempt to delete or rename prompts a message "Access denied". I try to delete the folder after booting the machine to safe mode with command prompt to no avail. I also try the samething by mounting the HDD on a Window 7 Home Premium machine without success even though I set the aministrator right to the folder ie. have full control. In Window 7 machine, under the folder property "security" tab it shows "System" and 2 "?Sxxxxx" where xxxx represent a long string of numbers. All three show full control access with a check mark in the "allow" boxes. There is a "special permission" box which doesn't have any check mark and it's grayed out. Do you think, I have been infected with some sort of Viruses? I have the Norton Antivirus suite installed on both machine and it doesn't detect anything or prompt any messages that raise my attention. Is there any OS out there that can be boot from CD-ROM or USB stick and can access Window NTFS files for deletion?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I really don't know what was happening. After uncompressing rar files downloaded over the internet in my XP Pro sp3 desktop machine, Winrar extracts them into an empty sub-dir folder which strangely I am unable to delete or rename. Every attempt to delete or rename prompts a message "Access denied". I try to delete the folder after booting the machine to safe mode with command prompt to no avail. I also try the samething by mounting the HDD on a Window 7 Home Premium machine without success even though I set the aministrator right to the folder ie. have full control. In Window 7 machine, under the folder property "security" tab it shows "System" and 2 "?Sxxxxx" where xxxx represent a long string of numbers. All three show full control access with a check mark in the "allow" boxes. There is a "special permission" box which doesn't have any check mark and it's grayed out. Do you think, I have been infected with some sort of Viruses? I have the Norton Antivirus suite installed on both machine and it doesn't detect anything or prompt any messages that raise my attention. Is there any OS out there that can be boot from CD-ROM or USB stick and can access Window NTFS files for deletion?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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