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I am trying to delete a folder on my D:\ drive. I tried tried everything up till loading myself as the system account in a CMD see below.

D:\>takeown /F torrent
ERROR: Access is denied.
D:\>whoami
nt authority\system
D:\>

Unedited from my CMD Window.

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  • You have your solution here
    – clhy
    Nov 12, 2015 at 22:07
  • "I tried everything...". Please tell us exactly what you tried already. I.E.: did you try a CHKDSK and a reboot yet?
    – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
    Nov 12, 2015 at 22:45

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It sounds to me like there's something on your system that is still accessing something in that directory. I'd use a tool like Process Explorer to search for any open "file handles" on the D:\torrent directory, and kill the processes which own those handles. You should then be able to delete the directory.

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  • uTorrent had a handle on the folder. Weird :/ Thanks Anyway.
    – Ryan Jeremiah Freeman
    Nov 12, 2015 at 22:55
  • ... and you check the proces explorer by running resmon.exe from the command line or from the Run dialog ...
    – Brethlosze
    Aug 29, 2017 at 5:25

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