richard_cocks
05-03-2004, 03:13 PM
I have 1 Drive, split into 2 partitions, a "main" 128GB partition, then another 20GB partition mounted as c:\lost+found\
Whenever I try to delete a folder in that second partition I get "cannot delete directory: access denied, the source file may be in use".
I've tried closing everything and it doesn't seem to help. But oddly, it has no complaints to me moving the folder to the other partition and deleting from there. (this seems VERY odd behaviour).
It's any folder (even if I create a folder anywhere on the partition and try deleting straight away it doesn't help).
What could be causing this? (I'm more interested in the reason rather than potential work arounds such as deleting from the cmd prompt (which does work) ).
Edit: I should know by now, I'm sorry!
My specs:
Windows 2000, both partitions are NTFS.
Whenever I try to delete a folder in that second partition I get "cannot delete directory: access denied, the source file may be in use".
I've tried closing everything and it doesn't seem to help. But oddly, it has no complaints to me moving the folder to the other partition and deleting from there. (this seems VERY odd behaviour).
It's any folder (even if I create a folder anywhere on the partition and try deleting straight away it doesn't help).
What could be causing this? (I'm more interested in the reason rather than potential work arounds such as deleting from the cmd prompt (which does work) ).
Edit: I should know by now, I'm sorry!
My specs:
Windows 2000, both partitions are NTFS.