Can't delete files

copz

I've been recently trying to delete files from my portable seagate hdd any
ideas how to get rid of them permanently........thanks

ricman

try this ,i dont know if it,ll work on an external drive.
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html

lil_lisa

What happens when you go to delete them? If you hold down Shift + Delete then it will bypass the recycling bin and be deleted permanently.

Cork Skate

copz wrote: »

I've been recently trying to delete files from my portable seagate hdd any
ideas how to get rid of them permanently........thanks

Are you getting an error message or something?

copz

it says access denied files are write protected.

Cork Skate

copz wrote: »

it says access denied files are write protected.

Right click on the files and look at its properties, take the check out of 'Read Only' .... Can you reboot your system first though, its possible that you had something opened and it still has a flag on it, reboot will sort this out for you.

copz

I've tried it and it doesn't work, I've looked in the folder and saw files named
windows installer patch and ASP.NET these also do not delete any ideas.

Black Swan

copz wrote: »

it says access denied files are write protected.

Are you accessing your external HDD from a user account or your administrator account?

Adam

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ for the win

BostonB

Create a file on it. Then look at the rights but more importantly, owership etc. of that file.

Then apply the same setting to everything on the portable.

Windows 7 making things simpler by making things harder as usual.

Stinicker

Adam wrote: »

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ for the win

Good advice, Try this I have yet to meet something it can't erase.