Access denied, even using W7 admin account..

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Please help!

I've been installing Windows 7 a few times over the last 24 hours (due to various issues I've had - dont ask..).. Now however I get "You have been denied permission to access this folder" on one of the drives.. I have even enabled the Windows 7 admin account, and it still doesnt allow me in the folder.. How do I disable this file system permission system completely? Its only me on the machine, I dont need to worry about who can see what..
 
Its one of the folders on a different drive, just containing video files.. The folder was used (as is) on a different machine prior to being moved to this machine (although I had access to it on all the installs I've done up to this one.).. Now I cant even access the folder.
 
I finally got it working.. It wasnt the users document folder, but f:\videoes..

In the end it turned out that the drive had full access given to server/name, the same name I was using now, but it must have stayed behind since the last W7 install - and even though it was the same server/name as now, it wouldnt let me "re-use" those permissions.. I removed it and it started working again.. It was strange though that even as Admin user I couldnt access it.

Thanks for the replies.
 
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