fix this damn NTFS bug!!

From: p2pdotcn (zhou140_at_yahoo.com.cn)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: 9 Feb 2004 21:47:17 -0800

on windows 2000 and windows server 2003, on some circumstances you
can't delete file or directory even you are the administrator.

this happens to me in this scenario:

say you have two partitions, c and d. for some reason the windows 2000
system got corrupt on c and you conducted a fresh install of windows
2000 on c. after that you lose control over all the files on partition
d. you can only read.
write or delete operation will be denied. it seems that ntfs has no
way to know that the owner of those files no longer exists after the
system was reinstalled.
that is why NTFS denies access from the new administrator ( actually
the same person ).

other versions of windows might have same problem. i think saying it
is annoying is an understatement. please fix this before doing other
things.

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