Deleting a sytem file that is not needed,help

weeowens

Hi,I wonder if anyone can help.I recently had a few issues with my PC so reinstalled Windows 7.
It appears to have saved a mirror image of the old system.This is not now needed & is hogging my disc space .When I try to delete it I get the following :



Any ideas as to how I give permission for the files to be deleted.I have full administrator control on the PC.
Sorry about the coloured bit around it.I forgot to close another program :-)

Cheers & thanks.

Ximian

Please read the whole post below, including my notes, before making any changes:

1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
2. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
3. At the command prompt, type takeown /F <DriveLetter>:\<FolderName>\* /R /A, and then press ENTER.
   
   Note When you run this command, you are granted ownership of the administrator group for the folder, of all the subdirectories in the folder, and of all the files in the folder.
4. At the command prompt, type cacls <DriveLetter>:\<FolderName>\*.* /T /grant administrators:F, and then press ENTER.
   
   Note When you run this command, administrators are granted full rights to all files and to all folders.
5. At the command prompt, type rmdir /S /Q <DriveLetter>:\<FolderName>\, and then press ENTER.
   
   Note When you run this command, all subfolders and all files in the specified folder are deleted. Additionally, the specified folder itself is deleted.

Taken from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930527/en-us

*Note* cacls is deprecated so you will need to use icalcs instead, I have modified this below. This assumes that the Windows.old.000 also resides at c:\Windows.old.000 you might need to modify the drive/location accordingly if the location of Windows.old.000 is different on your system.

Summary is as follows:

1.) Start button > type in "cmd.exe" (without the quotes)
2.) Right click cmd.exe and select "run as administrator"
3.) takeown /F c:\Windows.old.000\* /R /A
4.) icacls c:\Windows.old.000\*.* /T /grant administrators:F
5.) rmdir /S /Q c:\Windows.old.000\

weeowens

Cheers for the help.I've tried but failed :-)

I'll blame tiredness so will try again later .