Help! cannot delete old Backup Files!

[Guest Sandwhale]

i recently reformatted my computer. I have a backup file in my hardrive

which saved my files and after reformatting, i transferred the files i

needed to my account out of the backup folder. There are still about 40

GB of files left in the folder which i dont think i would need. I tried

deleting it changing ownership, turning UAC off but still cant.

 

Also, i wanted to back my files up in a CD/DVD ROM but it always fails

and merely gives me a 0x0087045D error.

 

I would appreciate the help very much. thank you!style_emoticons/

 

 

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Sandwhale

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[Guest Rick Rogers]

Hi,

 

Open an elevated command prompt by typing CMD into the start/search line,

then right click the link that appears in the menu and choose 'run as

administrator'. Click continue at the UAC prompt (if you've still got it

turned off, you needn't have as this is not related). From the prompt, use

CD to get to the root of where the folder is, then run:

 

RD /s /q <dir>

 

Where <dir> is the name of the backup folder you want to delete.

 

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Best of Luck,

 

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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> i recently reformatted my computer. I have a backup file in my hardrive

> which saved my files and after reformatting, i transferred the files i

> needed to my account out of the backup folder. There are still about 40

> GB of files left in the folder which i dont think i would need. I tried

> deleting it changing ownership, turning UAC off but still cant.

>

> Also, i wanted to back my files up in a CD/DVD ROM but it always fails

> and merely gives me a 0x0087045D error.

>

> I would appreciate the help very much. thank you!style_emoticons/

>

>

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> Sandwhale

> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

> </span>

[Guest Mark Gaydes]

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