Can't Delete Old Windows Directory

Posted by David Mullin on Super User See other posts from Super User or by David Mullin
Published on 2012-06-19T02:41:48Z Indexed on 2012/06/19 3:18 UTC
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I got a new SSD drive for my computer, and have installed Windows on this drive. This left an old Windows directory on my old normal drive. I am now attempting to delete this old Windows directory, but am getting blocked by security. If I crawl down into each subdirectory, I can manually change the ownership and access rights for each file, but if I attempt to do it from the root directory, I get a "Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied" error.

I have tried logging in as local Administrator, but this had the same effect.

I figure that I am missing something stupid, but I just can't determine what it is.

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