I have an old laptop hard drive. I pulled it out of my laptop and put a new one in. I bought a enclosure for it so now I have a really small (physically) 200 GB external hard drive. Since this was a windows system drive, there are some folders on it like "WINDOWS" "Program Files" and a 3 that are meaningless to me. they are like "juehvoub32t089bhwr974g." I have no clue what they are.
Anyways I would like to remove all those files/folders but I have some stuff on it that I don't want to remove. So I don't want to format the drive if I don't have to. I have tried deleting the files by simply dragging them to the recycle bin, highlighting them and hitting delete and a a program called "KillBox" that usually can delete anything. But I keep getting errors saying access denied. I have full rights on drive as I was sure to remove the password on my account e before I pulled it out of my laptop.
Is there any other way to delete these files? Thanks in advance for your help.
Brian
Anyways I would like to remove all those files/folders but I have some stuff on it that I don't want to remove. So I don't want to format the drive if I don't have to. I have tried deleting the files by simply dragging them to the recycle bin, highlighting them and hitting delete and a a program called "KillBox" that usually can delete anything. But I keep getting errors saying access denied. I have full rights on drive as I was sure to remove the password on my account e before I pulled it out of my laptop.
Is there any other way to delete these files? Thanks in advance for your help.
Brian