Denied Access to Old Document Folder

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Sean

I reinstalled XP (twice now). There's an old folder for
my previous logon for this laptop. It's security
protected in such a way that I cannot find out how big it
is, can't get into it, and can't delete it. By inference
and looking at the sizes of the other folders on my C:
Drive, this folder is around 12GB. I'm the admin on my
new XP installation, I've tried puttering around with the
security settings, tried sharing the folder, I've even
tried going the the DOS prompt and deleting it there.

How can I either
a) delete this memory hog of an old folder or
b) format my hard disk so that I can install a completely
clean iteration of XP?

Thanks!

Sean
 
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