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deleting windows system folder

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Mar 15, 20265945 views
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Problem

I want to use an old drive as a secondary hard drive without reformatting. But this old hard drive contains my old Vista installation which takes up gigs of space. I tried changing ownership and it works to some extent but I can not delete anything in Windows/System32 folder. Is there an easy way t…

Error Output

for d in $(find directory-of-interest -type d);do
  cacls $d'/*' /e /G username:F;
done

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Fix for: deleting windows system folder

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Go to the command prompt and use the command. For example, if the drive is you can type: This selects the folder on the Drive and gives the current user access over it and recurses over all subdirectories and files.

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