Wednesday, August 1, 2018

permissions - How to delete backed up windows files on drive

I have a drive that has windows directory on it. Its NOT my existing windows instance but a backup. I'm trying to delete it but keep running into permissions issues. I've tried to take ownership of the files and it appears to work. However, when I try to delete the files, I get an error saying I don't have permissions, sometimes even saying I need permissions from which is an admin.



Any ideas?

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