Cannot delete old directories after failed WinXP SP2

[Guest]

Howdy!

I have a computer that failed on the SP2 upgrade (4 of 5 computers in the
office successful). For various reasons, installed a new larger hard drive,
reinstalled XP, Office, other applications, etc.; everything is fine.

The original hard drive I have set up as a slave in the same machine. I am
able to access my various documents and files. I am going to use this slave
drive as a network share and I am in the process of deleted the old Program
Files, the old Windows Directory, etc. to free up space.

However, two of the directories I get an ACCESS DENIED error while trying to
view or delete. I believe the directories were created as temp directories
during the failed SP2 install.

Directory Names:
D:\ 4e0c9325ea2f30b2dd399c07457667
D:\ d036f9f9c2349d8fd5

I even tried booting from the WinXP CD to the recovery console and attempted
to delete the directories from the command line; same error.

Is there an attribute or something I am missing on the directories?

Any help much appreciated

Thanks!

Brian the ski bum

PS - FYI, I did following the steps using the recovery console to 'rollback'
the windows XP SP2 install and it also failed.

 

[Nepatsfan]

You might want to take a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

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[Guest]

That did the trick, thanks!

Should I reset the flag on simplified sharing when I am done? (See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874) ?

 

[Nepatsfan]

Yes, switch back to simple file sharing.

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