WinXP won't delete a folder in my NTFS partition

[S0me1X]

I have this folder "895a379" in my secondary NTFS partition, and the only content of this folder is another folder named "update".

I'm pretty sure that the two folders were created by Windows XP Service Pack 1 install. The problem is that I cannot delete the folders now, after SP1 has successfully installed. If I try to delete the update folder it says "Cannot remove folder: access denied" And if I actually try to look in the "update" folder Windows gives "E:\895a379\update is not accessable, access is denied" I tried restarting, but the folder still becomes unaccessible. Also, I've tried using checking the partition for errors using Windows' Built-in disk checker.

This is really annoying :|

 

[igiveup]

Personally I am wondering why you hate yourself enough to try to mess with a folder your OS thinks is pretty damn important. However, have you tried looking at the properties and making sure its not read only, as we as the Security settings for the folder?