windows - How can I delete this directory?

I thought I would try to delete a directory today. Little did I know, Windows wasn't going to let me.

C:\Data\Projects\acme\4.2.0>rmdir /s product
product, Are you sure (Y/N)? y
product\release - Access is denied.

This is happening under a command prompt which is running as Administrator. I thought I would try to figure out who it's owned by, if it wasn't Administrator:

C:\Data\Projects\acme\4.2.0\product>dir /q
 Volume in drive C is Windows 8
 Volume Serial Number is 38F9-44D7
 Directory of C:\Data\Projects\acme\4.2.0\product
01/02/2013  14:47              RADISH\Trejkaz          .
01/02/2013  14:47              RADISH\Trejkaz          ..
01/02/2013  14:47              ...                    release
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  79,467,786,240 bytes free

"..."? What the hell? Let's ask SysInternals, they usually know how things work:

C:\Data\Projects\acme\4.2.0\product>accesschk.exe release
Accesschk v5.03 - Reports effective permissions for securable objects
Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
  Error getting security for C:\Data\Projects\acme\4.2.0\product\release:
  Access is denied.
No matching objects found.

It seems like I will have to get to SYSTEM level to delete this directory, even though I created it myself.

I tried some techniques mentioned here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2004/11/27/271063.aspx?Redirected=true

None of these work because I don't have the required permissions under an Administrator command prompt. Windows 8 seems to have locked this stuff down so hard that you can't use your own computer anymore.

Trying to take ownership via Explorer gives this cryptic dialog, which suggests clicking a Change button which doesn't even exist on the dialog:

Answer

Boot from Hiren's BootCD (actually you don't really need to burn it, it's possible to drop it on a pendrive), then choose Mini Windows XP from the menu and use it to delete that directory.

I think I don't have to mention that to do this, you must have a Windows XP license - otherwise it's illegal.

Another option is to use some Linux distro with ntfs-3g driver (eg. Ubuntu), which is considered safe for writing NTFS volumes - although this is a special case, so be careful.

Ah, and running chkdsk /r C: may help if that's a corrupted file descriptor problem.