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There are four of these files, in three directories. The files cannot be read, deleted, moved, or renamed. I have tried the Explorer permissions dialog, ICACLS, TAKEOWN, and SUBINACL -- all say permission denied. I am logged in as a member of Administrators. Running elevated does not help. Running as %COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator does not help.

The files are not open by any process, either local or remote.

Other files in these folders are perfectly readable, modifiable, deletable.

I even tried running CMD.exe as LocalSystem -- still couldn't access the files.

Since this is a live storage server, it will be some time before I can run a CHKDSK/F. Are there any other tools that might have luck with the files?

OS: Windows Server 2008 R2

Server is a domain member

Ross Presser
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    Typically this is a sign of filesystem inconsistency. You're likely going to be stuck running `chkdsk`. Are you picking up any NTFS errors in your System Event Log? – Evan Anderson Jul 08 '14 at 16:50
  • Nope. (The comment I entered earlier, and deleted, saying that there were such errors, was about a different server.) – Ross Presser Jul 08 '14 at 17:05
  • Do you get any type of message when trying to manipulate these files? – joeqwerty Jul 08 '14 at 17:38
  • "Access is denied." when trying to `type`, `del`, `move` or `ren`. Similar messages from `ICACLS`, `TAKEOWN`, `SUBINACL`. – Ross Presser Jul 08 '14 at 17:42
  • I worked around this for IIS purposes using (several) virtual directories... Will try `CHKDSK /F` on the weekend. – Ross Presser Jul 08 '14 at 18:54
  • Why not run CHKDSK read-only to confirm or deny NTFS corruption? – BlueCompute Jul 09 '14 at 08:13
  • The problem is moot now; that drive got destroyed in an unrelated disaster (stupid datacenter employee) and the data on that was it now lives on a new drive. – Ross Presser Feb 18 '16 at 18:41

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Almost certainly a problem with the NTFS master file table. Seen this very thing myself. Reboot with CHKDSK flagged.

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  • Well, instead of rebooting with chkdsk, I force-dismounted it (it was drive D, not C) and ran CHKDSK /F from user mode. It didn't help; after 45 minutes it still had not completed, and I had to abort because my time window was closing. – Ross Presser Jul 29 '14 at 23:39