NTFS Folder has no owner, no permissions, can't be deleted

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Published on 2010-06-09T21:03:41Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 21:12 UTC
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Hi,

I have a folder a 2003 member server which can't be deleted. Nothing has any permissions (domain admin and running up a cmd prompt as "nt authority\system" using psexec) - always "access denied".

When I do a dir /q, the owner shows as "...".

I've tried takeown.exe on the folder and also it's parent. The bad folder always reports "access denied". Also tried to reset using icacls, same thing.

Explorer permissons has no sharing & security options or tabs. It works fine for other folders, even in the same directory.

Bit stumped to say the least.

g.

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