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After a Windows reset, certain folders may retain permissions from non-existing accounts, leading to "Permission denied" errors. This Gist provides commands to take ownership, grant full permissions, and remove a specific folder on drive to resolve the issue.

# Take ownership and grant full permissions
takeown /F D:\Foldername p /R /A
icacls D:\Foldername /grant "YourUserName":(F) /T

# Remove the folder and its contents
rd /s /q D:\Foldername
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