Windows 10: I cannot delete files in any of the folders in my Disk Drive D. Please, help.

I can't delete them after I have updated Windows 10 to its latest version. Because of this I cannot uninstall a program I installed in that drive. Pictures can't be deleted also. Any kind of files, I cannot delete them. I can't even make a new folder in that Drive.

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Trouble deleting a folder

Download norton commander for windows and try it. I`m using it for deleting those autorun.inf virus files that stuck to the USB drives or second non system partition. If no file is used from windows folder NC should erase it easy. And there is Hiren`s boot disk that you can download it is bootable and has volkov commander on it similar to NC and it runs in DOS and it will delete windows folder 100%. Or you can make USB stick bootable and use deltree command.

 

Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

Deleted Disk Drive D

Hi S -

This is Orlando, an Independent Advisor and an expert with windows 10. I understand you're deleted your D drive to expand your C drive but the option is grayed out.

Is the C partition and D partition are on the same drive or disk?

how are you trying to expand the C drive?

If the drive D is a separate drive then extending the C drive will not be possible as they don't share the same drive volume. You can take back the D drive again by allocating it on your computer. To do that;

1. Open the disk management by pressing the windows key + r and type diskmgmt.msc

2. Once open, you will notice an unallocated space below which is the deleted D drive, you can just right click on it and select New Simple Volume. Follow the instruction next to re-allocate the drive D on your computer.

3. Once drive is created, it will automatically assign a letter on the drive and you can check it on the file explorer.

However if the D drive is on the same drive as your C, you can use the process below to extend the volume of your C drive;

1. Open command prompt with administrator access

2. Type DiskPart and press enter

3. Type List Volume and press enter. It will list all the volume created on your drive including unallocated space

4. Locate what volume number your C drive is allocated.

5. Type Select Volume X >> where X is the number that corresponds with your C drive.

6. Type extend and press enter >> partition C will be extended with the unallocated space on your drive.

Limitations of Diskpart to extend C drive :

* Only when there is adjacent unallocated space on the right side of the to-be-extended partition, extend command is valid.

* Only NTFS partition is supported to extend. Namely, the FAT32 or exFAT partition cannot be enlarged.

* Unallocated space is not displayed in the command window, so you don't know whether there is and where it is.

* Operations cannot be undone, the incorrect operation could cause data loss.

The above method should extend your drive C if it meets all the requirements needed to extend the drive.

Hope this help, have a good day.

Thanks,



Independent Advisor