Permissions – After re-installing Windows XP i’ve got a folder I don’t have rights to any more. How can I regain control?

On my second hard drive there’s this folder:

D:73dca78350f1e7f756d03ee8

It contains two sub folders – “amd64” and “i386”.

After re-installing Windows XP I can no longer access these folders. I just get “Access denied”. These are the only two folders on the disk that I can’t access.

How can I regain control of these two folders?

I’m logged in with Administrator rights.

Solution:

Have you tried taking ownership of the folders? These are normally remnants of a Windows Update or Windows Installer program.

There is a detailed guide on how to do this available here.