Folder not deleting

[Archgaull]

Having a bit of a weird issue I've never seen before, hoping someone can help me.

I purchased a new hard drive yesterday for the use of nothing but TV and movies. Hard drive works fine, no issues with that. However, a weird issue I'm having is when I moved over my TV and movies from my D: drive to my new drive, the TV folder became, for all intents and purposes, locked.

All my TV is on my new drive and I can view it fine, so that's not an issue. However, for whatever reason, I still have a TV folder on my D drive. As far as I can tell, it's completely empty, but it refuses to delete. I've tried standard deleting, as well as running the CMD prompt as administrator and trying a "del" command, to no avail.

If I attempt to open it, it opens a dialogue box with the title Location Not Available, and it reads "D:\TV is not available, access is denied."

If I try to delete it normally, it says I need admin access, which I provide, and then it says access denied anyway.

If I view the security properties, it says I don't even have permission to read the properties of the file.

Does anyone know how to delete the folder and get rid of this annoying error?

 

[dudio]

Two thoughts come to mind (and neither may be correct).
Have you tried deleting it while in Safe Mode?
Have you searched for "D:\TV" in the registry? Back up registry first and then delete all references?

 

[Archgaull]

I'll try the safe mode trick, but honestly I'm not experienced enough in the registry to be screwing around and deleting stuff, especially not over a mild annoyance at best.

 

[Archgaull]

Safe mode did the trick, deleted with no hassle. No clue what caused that, but that's good to know for future issues.