Stubborn Folders Will Not Delete

Hi -
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a P4 3.4 GHz computer with 2G of Ram. I have two folders that were corrupted during a copy/paste command and I cannot get them to go away. They retain their read only status and I get errors that say they are in use. I've searched the forums here and have tried a lot of what has been suggested in the past including:

Booting in Safe mode - won't delete

Using the DEL function in DOS Command - won't delete (even with /f)

"Open Command prompt type DEL hit space bar and drag/drop file into command prompt window.
Open Task Manager/processes and kill explorer.exe, go to CMD prompt and hit enter.
Go to Task Manager/New Task and type explorer.exe hit ok.."

I have tried using Move on Boot, Killbox, and Unlock. (Unlock actually did let me delete 2 of the 4 offending folders).

I've tried using chkdsk to with the /v switch to look at the indexing - but still no luck.

I need to delete these files in order to do a software upgrade, so I'd really appreciate any help. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks -

Albionmoon

 

Oh yeah, I also tried using the attrib command with the -r to no avail.
thanks -
albionmoon

 

Out of curiosity, what types of folders are these? This information might be helpful in deleting them. Any idea of what application is using them?

 

These are Avid Project folders - they are used to house bin files, project settings, etc...I have uninstalled Avid (a precursor to the upgrade) but these folders are undelete-able. The problem began awhile back when I tried to copy/paste a backup of these files and aborted the copy/paste function. After that, it won't delete. Thanks -
albionmoon

 

Unbelievable! After working on it all morning, I finally got the darn things to delete! I am so happy! I had to go into the ownership settings in the folder properties (in safe mode) and change the owner to the adminstrator setting I was currently logged in as - then I applied the un-read only and was able to delete the files. Thank god!

albionmoon

 

Glad that you got the problem solved!